Some, like Michel Parmigiani and Peter Speake-Marin, also honed their skills restoring vintage rarities.
Yet, as ever rarer rarities emerge, even the most expansive appetites must balk.
As recently as the early 1980s yachts like the 81-foot Nirvana, built for television producer Marvin Green, were rarities.
Mr Laurrent has a taste for lexical rarities and delights in scientific descriptions.
If one accumulated wealth by legitimate means, was one entitled to "squander" it on beautiful, useless rarities like tulips, or indeed paintings and gems?
He returned in 2009 for two back-to-back shows, which mixed classics like Little Red Corvette with rarities and jazz-tinged songs from his back catalogue.
Today's expensive luxuries and rarities become tomorrow's affordable, widespread commonplaces.
So for the moment, Heather and Linda remain precious rarities.
Perhaps more important, the four- and five-figure prices realized by most of these pieces, bona fide rarities of cosmic provenance, were astronomically low by the standards of contemporary art.
"Lie To Me, " the opening track on a three-disc mother lode of rarities Tom Waits calls Orphans, is two minutes and 10 seconds of pure, unfiltered rock 'n' roll bliss.
Films featuring Wisdom will be screened on October 31 and November , including favourites such as A Stitch In Time, plus rarities from American TV and an exclusive British premiere.
In the "Ring, " four Wagner tubas join an enlarged brass section that includes other orchestral rarities like the bass trumpet, contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba, creating "choirs" of gleaming brass.
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The new compilation Smart's Palace finally reissues the track alongside a dozen or so other Wichita rarities, bringing the beautiful fragility of Theron and Darrell's unsung masterpiece to the rest of the world.
Some of these items can turn normal items into rares, turn normal items into random rarities, randomize the color of gem slots in an item, reroll the slots in an item, and more.
Local retirees Dick and Kathy Warren, on the sidewalk between a political breakfast at a downtown hotel and a Labor Day mass at the Church of the Assumption, are proud to be Republicans, rarities in St.
Both were rarities in the dot-com days.
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Six days a week you can watch some of the rarities among the museum's 23, 000 film titles in its Dryden Theatre -- a 500-seat jewel-box with a real curtain that rises to uncover the screen before each showing.
Back in 1719, when Russian Czar Peter the Great opened what is considered to be the first public museum, he displayed all sorts of natural and human rarities: exotic butterflies, skeletons and living specimens such as Foma the Lobster Boy.
When I am home and not paying, my three favorite rums to date have been Oronoco, from Brazil and Ten Cane from Trinidad, both rarities among good rums in that they are closer to white than dark, along with Ron Zacapa from Guatemala.
Together the Gillet collection forms what the French call a cabinet neither a library nor even a portion of a library, but a refined personal selection of souvenirs and rarities, that in Mr Gillet's case was first inherited and then enhanced over more than half a century.
Ignoring for a moment how annoying it is to have all the key sockets located back there, it's a pretty good selection of ports: in addition to two USB openings, it has Thunderbolt and full-sized HDMI sockets, both rarities for Ultrabooks (heck, Thunderbolt ports on PCs are rare, period).
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