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I've also found it interesting, in a "sign of the times" way. Alas, my poor past submission did not make it: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/realestate/the-c
by B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago
I've also found it interesting, in a "sign of the times" way. Alas, my poor past submission did not make it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/realestate/the-cosmo-girls-lair-for-19-4-million.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/realestate/the-cosmo-girls...
"Helen Gurley Brown’s turreted quadruplex atop the exclusive Beresford co-op at 211 Central Park West, where she lived for four decades until her death in 2012 and which was bedecked in midcentury glamour, has finally sold. At $19,380,000, it was the second most expensive transaction of the week, according to city records."
All in the past now, as in the "famous ceramist" Gore Vidal remark.
- neonate 7y ago> as in the "famous ceramist" Gore Vidal remark What was that one? Googling just brings me back here.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y agoSomething along the lines of "soon speaking of a famous writer will be like speaking of a famous ceramist" (i.e. absurd). I think it was in one of the essays or interviews, but my memory may have mangled something. I could not find it online either, so it does not exist ...