Word: cognoscenti
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...this universal phenomenon is being celebrated in two separate showcases. Last week a cross-cultural exhibition titled "Body Art: Marks of Identity," curated by Schildkrout and devoted to the past 4,000 years of body modification--"bod-mod" to the cognoscenti--opened at the American Museum. At the same time, photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, based in London, have published African Ceremonies (Abrams; $150), two magnificent volumes documenting the continent's rapidly vanishing kaleidoscope of tribal rites, many of which involve elaborate body decoration...
...hesitant to diverge. Do not as cognoscenti lord it over people, practicing the poker-face, the bored tyrant. Do not order people around. What was the first occurrence of any given thing? Onomasticon whatchamacallit...
...century American art took much longer to be appreciated by Americans (or anyone else). Names like John Marin, Marsden Hartley or Charles Demuth still mean nothing in Europe, and until quite recently the proposal that Stuart Davis was as fine a painter as Jackson Pollock would have struck most cognoscenti as barmy, even heretical...
...scandal cognoscenti, there was nothing new in the headline last week that KEN STARR'S chief deputy once drafted an indictment against HILLARY CLINTON. But the confirmation by prosecutor W. HICKMAN EWING, coming at the outset of Whitewater figure SUSAN MCDOUGAL'S trial for contempt, sent chills through the First Lady and those advising her as she considers a run for a New York Senate seat, sources say. As a sign of things to come, says one, "this most recent news gives you pause...
...scandal cognoscenti, there was nothing new in the headline last week that Ken Starr?s chief deputy once drafted an indictment against Hillary Clinton. But the confirmation by prosecutor W. Hickman Ewing, coming at the outset of Whitewater figure Susan McDougal?s trial for contempt, sent chills through the First Lady and those advising her as she considers a run for a New York Senate seat, sources say. As a sign of things to come, says one, ?this most recent news gives you pause...