Though such tastes may seem a tad nouveau riche, Birdman has been doing this for decades.
The American and European nouveau riche collectors lean toward contemporary images and social commentary, Dolman says.
"No one is going to blame the Mets for taking the money, " Riche says.
Police raids on the Riche have always been remarkably unsuccessful, though frequent in the 1920s.
He recounts the story from his hilltop mansion in Kabul's nouveau riche neighborhood of Wazir Akbar Khan.
Riche said she is resigning because she felt she had done the job she was hired to do.
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser plotted his coup over cardamom-scented coffee at the Riche.
Unlike many of its competitors the Riche served alcohol, and still does today.
The Riche also faced dastardly new competitors, from sports bars and foreign chains to low-rent hookah joints and latterly the internet.
He also scored twice for his club side Jersey Scottish in their Le Riche Cup final win over league champions St Paul's.
But some congressional staffers and others said Riche, who has held the post since 1994, also was tired of battling Republicans over sampling.
As Barnabas schemes to turn the Collins family from old money to nouveau riche, Angelique appears, demanding that he requite her unrequited love.
Hanoi's skyline dotted with cranes for new office buildings and pricy new condos that Vietnam's nouveau riche often pay for up front in cash.
Allen Edwards was the manager at the supermarket, as it closed its doors after being operated by Guernsey's Le Riche's company for 10 years.
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Umm Kalthoum, the grand diva of Egypt, gave one of her first performances in Cairo in 1923 on a foot-high stage at the Riche.
That has been coupled with an unprecedented rise in prosperity, particularly in the big cities, which in turn has helped spread nouveau-riche-type attitudes among the prospering classes.
Census Bureau Director Martha Farnsworth Riche's announcement Jan. 12 that she will resign effective Jan. 30 deepened concerns among some Republicans over the bureau's plans for the 2000 census.
The rise of China's nouveau riche has created an economic chasm between luxury-store sales clerks and customers, which can lead to awkward situations, says Andrea Bonardi, La Perla's managing director for emerging markets.
English soccer fans see Chelsea as a nouveau-riche upstart, while Germans refer to Bayern Munich as "FC Hollywood, " which sounds like a compliment, but actually means the club's players are a bunch of entitled, egotistic monsters.
Back then, pop-folk music and its lifestyle were associated with the mafia-dominated nouveau-riche class that sprung out of the marriage between capitalism and lawlessness in the region's nascent democracies but, over time, it crossed over into the mainstream.
In the once rarefied fishing village of Saint-Tropez, the 300-foot super-yachts and private jets of the new-nouveau riche were gassed up and fruit-of-the-month-vodka-stocked, the Estonian "special-events models" booked, the guest lists of bold faces edited to meet gossip-column requirements.
Willian Borges da Silva, the 24-year-old Brazilian superstar known as Willian, represents a certain archetype: the one who leaves his country at a young age and moves for a big fee to one of soccer's nouveau-riche clubs in Eastern Europe.
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