Word: cognoscenti
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...different sounds and all. Let's make the soundtrack unsettling in the same way," or something to that effect. What must have been especially annoying for many members of the audience was the ceaseless repetition of a set of five short bleeps, followed by a sixth long one. The cognoscenti of course knew that those bleeps were the signal for the Israel Radio news on the hour, sounds which stopped all activity for the duration of the broadcast. But I wonder what the people who hadn't been there made of those bleeps, since, like almost every other sight...
John Hammond, at the Performance Center this week, is a top-flight musician who dabbles with all sorts of material--lots of bluesy stuff, especially--and, for some reason, never seems to have hit it big. However, the real cognoscenti know he's good, and his show sounds definitely worth catching...
Jean Baptiste Delisle may be the most skillful politician in Washington. Every noon he brings together the folks who count in the fractured capital and he sends them away a little mellower. Paul, as he is known to the cognoscenti, is the maitre d' of the Sans Souci, the restaurant that has become a national institution...
...introduced by a fellow in a three-piece suit who uttered some innocuous pleasantries about how disappointed he and the others were when Leslie Fiedler and not Kael dominated the podium at a recent PMLA convention. Two hours later, as Kael finished answering questions from the film buffs and cognoscenti who surrounded her, the more skeptical among us wondered what it was that she and wildman Fielder could possibly have disagreed...
Still, strong doubts are beginning to disturb the cognoscenti, who worry that Sadat will become a Nasser-like strongman. It is an unexpected role. Before Sadat assumed the top office, his chief accomplishment was surviving for 18 years in Nasser's coterie, though he was banished to his native Delta village for five weeks only last summer for using government powers to take over a luxurious villa that his wife coveted. Cairo skeptics suggest that his accession to power merely portends a different sort of police state. "Up till now, the leftist-controlled intelligence tapped the telephones...