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...luxury as one-of-a-kind experiences, like a group of hedge-fund managers who recently paid top dollar to be dropped into the middle of the Amazon. Uniqueness is something, along with quality, that luxury consumers desire universally?who doesn't covet that one-of-a-kind object, whether it be an Hermčs handbag, a Breguet watch or even a multimillion-dollar Damien Hirst skull? But luxury is also about layering comfort into our turbocharged daily lives. As Coco Chanel once said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it's not luxury." Nobody knows this better than the handful...
...possibility that the bronze could have also ended up outside China angered nationalists. But Sotheby's argued that it would likely have ended up on the mainland even if it went to auction. "We were quite confident that the object there stood a very good chance of falling into the hands of a Chinese collector, bearing in mind the search and demand and interest of mainland Chinese collectors for important works of Chinese art, especially those of great historical significance," says Kevin Ching, CEO of Sotheby's Asia. For China's wealthy new elite, buying Chinese artifacts from abroad...
...That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel famously cast two actresses to play one character (though it wasn't to suggest a dual nature; it was because - who knows why, the man was a surrealist). Two years ago, in Palindromes, Todd Solondz had the lead character, a 12-year-old girl, played by eight actors (including a boy and two adults). Haynes' use makes the most sense, at least the kind of sense a filmmaker can pitch at a backers' meeting, since Dylan did have many lives, all of his own creation...
...great hopes of engineering an environmentally friendly production. "I got laughed out of the building," he says. "They don't even have places to take recycling." The foreign director of photography on another film became frustrated with the Russian crew and resorted to ethnic insults; soon after, an object fell from the set and hit him on the head, convincing him that someone on the crew was plotting to kill him. Joffé, for his part, showed up to work one day to find that a building in which he planned to shoot had been razed. "You just have...
...College’s part. Due to the ubiquity of cell phones nowadays, the vast majority of red phones did little more than gather dust in the darkest corners of student rooms, and Harvard’s re-used pillows often suffered the same fate. We strenuously object, however, to the mode in which the Offices of Residential Life and Physical Resources promulgated their decision...