Today his private collections span everything from rare Greek and Roman antiquities to contemporary art by masters like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg -- but the Neue Galerie is the culmination of his first art-world love.
Again, staunch vegetarians should turn a blind eye to the smattering of meat dishes – it is authoritative on everything from rare and exotic vegetables to the few foraged foods she thinks worthy of attention.
And at the chic City Club Hotel on West 44th Street, Jeff Klein, the owner, has stocked a cozy lending library with everything from rare editions by Truman Capote and Jack Kerouac to dog-eared paperbacks by Jackie Collins -- in short, from literati to glitterati.
Students' union meetings – which I remember as crowded, bordering-on-rowdy affairs – are now, apparently, much quieter events, and the periodic student occupations of Heslington Hall about anything and everything are rare, although there are plans for a revival of protest in the wake of the Browne recommendations about tuition fees.
While this week's incident was notable for its size, Canadian environmentalists and indigenous activists say it may be a sign of things to come for the country, and perhaps the rest of the world as well, as mining for everything from rare earth metals to coal increases globally.
Even if you don't win first prize, the next several tiers can get you everything from rare Legowelt music and merchandise to a guide for "mind-altering plants in the Northern Hemisphere," so it's hard to say that Wolfers is being stingy.
Spanning more than a century of cinema history, the works include everything from the rare John Ford silent feature "Bucking Broadway" (1917) to virtually unknown works by Luis Buñuel, Kenji Mizoguchi and Michael Curtiz, and many films unseen by the public in decades.
At least that seems to be the verdict after a two-week round of auctions at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury & Company, with bidders paying record prices for everything from a rare Matisse to a red heart sculpture by Jeff Koons.
The vast majority of matter in the universe is hydrogen, helium and lithium; everything else is rare.
Mental health treatment is expensive and compared to everything else, pretty rare.
