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...Criterion. Consider: that it's the only label to have its own section in many video stores; that a copy of the out-of-print "white ring" edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo has been bid up, last time I checked, to $1,025 on eBay, and the auction doesn't end till midnight tomorrow; and that Criterion's new megabox set, Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films, retailing for all of $850, places an impressive #737 on the Amazon.com best-seller list - higher, for example, than any single DVD edition of Citizen Kane...
...myself around the intersection of Market Street and Dolores in San Francisco, where the U.S. mint sits on a hill overlooking a Safeway supermarket, the very mint that produced, for reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt at a stamp collection. I still have my first-day issue of the three-cent stamp commemorating Teddy's Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill, which today is worth about what it was then...
...performed in the Loeb only twice before—usually, they dance in the Quad. Hundreds of hours of work have gone into the production, and “American Grace” is proving to be an expensive one: its rising costs have spurred a dancer date auction and an alumni fundraising event...
...such a show, HBC needs money. Fundraising efforts so far have included the “Date-A-Dancer” date auction, which was held Oct. 28 in the Quincy Cage...
...American Grace” cast members paraded before a costumed audience composed mostly of friends and fellow dancers. The auction raised around $400, much of which came from people involved in the production...