Word: connoisseuring
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...shows have opened this month at Harvard to tempt the Cambridge area art connoisseur. "Pioneers of Modern Sculpture" appears at the Fogg Museum, and "Designs For Living: Symbolic Communication in African Art." is on view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, is said to be a witty conversationalist, a bibliophile, a connoisseur of modern art?a kind of "closet liberal." He also happens to be the former boss of the world's most powerful, and possibly most feared, police organization...
...wise move. Nast knew almost nothing about fashion. "Until the day he died, he could not tell you why a certain model was good or bad," writes Seebohm. "But he was a connoisseur of women. His respect for them as colleagues was topped only by his appreciation of them as romantic inspiration...
...haven't seen that before." The violence in this vigilante farce is too preposterous to make anyone wince, or to remind teen-agers of the real high schools they will be entering this week. Life is different outside the cartoon corridors of Contact High. And nobody but a connoisseur of trash ever got an education from a bad movie...
...Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff are still the rule, from the rustic expanse of western Massachusetts to the urban refuge of the Hollywood Hills. This summer, like every other summer, is the season of the "Emperor" Concerto and the Fifth Symphony. Perhaps U.S. orchestras take their programming cues from that musical connoisseur Ulysses S. Grant, who once observed, "I only know two tunes; one of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't." -By Michael Walsh