Word: collectors
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...Grzecki ’10 read aloud to the nearly-filled room. “This is an unbelievably impressive showing,” said Grzecki before delving into selections from the book. This reissue is based on an original version owned by Gus Sousa, a rare book collector and resident of Salem, Mass. The ’Poonsters admitted in the foreward that the nearly century-old work might not appeal to readers with more modern tastes, saying that if the work was not their “‘best’ parody...
...Still, he remembers when, where and why they bought the wooden Brancusi and the Matisse still life and the antique Roman bust. "The goal was to buy the best painting, the best sculpture," Bergé explains. "If you are a collector, it's not a question of taste. You have to love the work of art, yes, but first is to understand what you are looking at, to know what the painting means in the life of the painter...
...series of novels about a shopping-obsessed, debt-ridden young English journalist named Becky Bloomwood (Isla Fisher). As a romantic comedy, it is forgettable. But as an ill-timed anthropological artifact, Confessions offers weird pleasures, not least among them the fact that it makes us root for the debt collector. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Would you rather have the Sports Illustrated cover or be on the side of a plane? Oh, Sports Illustrated. That's something that is there forever, you know? It's like a collector's item. And the plane, they would take it off probably after a few days. But both are really cool...
...objects I've loved and lived with," she says. "If I'm donating them to a museum, I expect that to be a place that I trust, where the objects will be treated with the care I give them in my own home. That's true of any collector giving pieces to a museum...