A number of items are devoted to infantilizing yesterday's pampered wives: a spectrum of lucky charms (hearts, stars, moons, clovers, ladybugs, etc).
In April, at the Hopes' church, St. Charles Borromeo in North Hollywood, the family sold table linens, knickknacks and religious items that belonged to the Hopes, who were devoted Catholics.
Govan envisions that one-third of BCAM's space will be devoted to items that will largely stay put, another one-third to exhibitions changing every six to 12 months and another one-third to temporary exhibitions lasting roughly three months.
The house's final sales before the holiday break, both on Dec. 15, are devoted to Tiffany items (including an impressive and intricate three-panel window, circa 1910) and chic twentieth-century design pieces by Ruhlmann, Noguchi, and Nakashima, among others.
But a healthy practice is to keep a small or medium size box that's devoted to these items.
Still, this seems like a myopically small fraction of the budget to be devoted to an item normally regarded as a sine qua non of luxury travel.
"If Santorum had prevailed [in Michigan] despite a lot of media attention being devoted to these items and I would argue that attention is in part thanks to Drudge's amplification of them -- it might have been read in some quarters as an indication of waning influence on Drudge's part," said Liz Mair, an online media strategist and former adviser to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
For example, an entire section is devoted to the thirty-one items of legislation concerning state standards for renewable energy generation.
The rest of the week is devoted to sales of furniture and decorative items.
