"It smacks of modernity, " said Barbara Brock, a principal at New York-based staging company Sold with Style.

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Cosmo, an Asian-style buffet restaurant, sold the statue in aid of the Derby Evening Telegraph's Give Us a Break appeal.

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If you want to take some samples home to taste, canned snails are sold marinated in hot sauce or in Provencal style, with garlic, white wine and butter.

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Their arresting style blended New Wave with reggae and sold more than 60 million albums before the band broke up nearly a decade later.

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Jordan sold his half-court, backdoor-cut style Princeton offense as the way to turn Philadelphia into a contender, but the style never meshed with the talent on the roster.

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The 1.85m-high Soviet-style, red black and yellow acrylic painting has been sold.

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