Word: connoisseuring
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...writing "fat and thin" characters, some bold and emphatic and others trailing to the faintest visual whisper, was peculiarly his own (at least among Japanese calligraphers) and difficult to emulate. His ability to work with space through writing struck his admirers as a marvel. Ernest Fenollosa, the great Boston connoisseur of Japanese art who did the most to introduce Koetsu to a Western audience at the end of the 19th century, went into raptures about it: "Such a unique feeling for spacing, placing and spotting has never elsewhere been exhibited in the world's art. Koetsu...
...does admit to enjoy chatting, looking at works of art and going on long walks--"I like doing what most people like doing," he says. Friends generally agree with Sen's assessment, though Martha Chen adds that Sen is "a connoisseur of fine wine" and likes...
With high art butting up against crass industry, and the sublime meeting the slime, Cannes is catnip for a connoisseur of bad taste like trash auteur John Waters, who showed his fizzy anarchistic jape Cecil B. Demented out of competition. "When I hear people say they hate the festival," he told TIME's Jeffrey Ressner, "I wonder why they bother to stay in show business." Cecil B. was typical of the American films premiering at Cannes this year. Ribald or sedate, they were all off-Hollywood. The Coen brothers offered a surprisingly genial odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with...
...budding connoisseur with money to burn, I turn to digestif every week for dining suggestions. In general I have been very pleased with the restaurants and dishes recommended. However, the photograph accompanying last week's review of Stephanie's of Newbury put me off my lunch. An up-close-and-personal, black-and-white snapshot of a partially prepared chicken doesn't exactly get my lips smacking. "Toss my salade," indeed...
...attendee, describes. "There's a table in the back with wine, and some older guy looks at you and asks, 'Red or White?' " Das' friend, social swinger Paul R. Mrockowski '00, attests to the superior pedigree of the wine bar. As a self-declared wino, Mrockowski can appreciate the connoisseur in Das--a small reward for the approximate $500 Das drops per party...