"A 'mourning bear,' made just after the Titanic sank, sold for $135,000 in the U.K. last year".
Among hundreds of copper bargains on display at the shop, the sink sells for about $400 (it could easily go for $1,000 or more in the U.S ., a two-foot-high vase is priced at $250 and a frying pan at $14.
A construction pit was yawning in front of the heart of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange, which has sunk to selling ad space on its own forehead: Its Corinthian pillars were obscured by a vinyl billboard for a the Holiday Inn (especially ironic since the sculpture on the pediment above the columns is loftily entitled "Integrity Protecting the Works of Man").
"My whole family were shocked at the depths to which advertisers will sink to sell their products.
In particular, Russia, which is not a European Union member, is hoping to cash in these sinks by selling emission credits to Western companies.
An entire subgenre of television arrived — a spate of series promoting the idea that anyone with access to a line of credit could reap a fortune buying a house, installing a Sub-Zero fridge and some marble sinks and selling it at a 100percentt profit.
In Washington the country's new drug czar (Michael Douglas) tries to comprehend the problem, while at home his crack-addicted teenage daughter (Erika Christensen) sinks closer to selling herself for the next fix.
Exxon buying Zilog, a microprocessor company, and then some word processor companies, into which it sank $1 billion before selling and writing off the businesses.
One was "Untitled (Broom Sink)," a 1984 plaster sink being sold by the California collectors Ruth and Jake Bloom.
In an act of desperation, he steals fifty Brita filters from the cupboard next to the sink and sells them to a cunning Bed Bath & Beyond employee.
