Word: connoisseuring
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...library named in his memory. George’s wife Eleanor Elkins Widener—who survived the Titanic disaster—apportioned $1.5 million to completing Miramar between 1914-1915 in addition to financing the library that bears her son’s name. Eleanor, an art connoisseur and collector, furnished Miramar primarily with 18th-century French art and architecture. She used the house as her summer home and frequently held large social events at the estate, often welcoming distinguished military, naval, and official visitors. In 1915—the same year the library and estate were completed?...
...customers go in and out. She also gets weekly feedback from sales associates and managers. "You don't always have to be right, but you have to be focused on the customers' needs. We do a lot of marketing research." All of which has produced three "customer profiles": the connoisseur, a sophisticated woman with a discriminating and chic sense of style; the socialite, the enviable élite fluent in the latest must-have culture; and the visionary, an original and unprecedented trendsetter with inspirational expressions of fashion. Connoisseurs make up about 50% of BCBG's clientele, whereas visionaries...
...just about owning the latest Pixar movie or Star Wars reissue. The DVD format has created a connoisseur class that values taste in title selection, pristine print quality, peerless extras and lavish production. For those collectors, the Chanel of DVD outfits is Criterion, spawned by the pre-eminent '50s art-house distributor Janus Films. From the 350 titles issued thus far in the Criterion Collection, here's a sampling of its classy wares...
...obsessed with allegory. Everybody knows what the world looks like these days. They've seen it on TV. So as a writer you have to be more transcendental, more allegorical. Nearly everything has more to it than meets the eye. Even my life." Pausanias, that ancient Greek connoisseur of myth and meaning, would be pleased. So would Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo. They're both mentioned in Hav, well before the allegorical tunnel...
...decision ushered in an era of innovative study of the world's most iconic painted cave. A team led by Paul-Marie Guyon, a young physical chemist, and including Jacques Marsal, one of the boys who discovered Lascaux and who grew up to become its guardian and most practical connoisseur, worked to model the air flows and monitor the carbon dioxide content and temperature in the cave. At the same time, the meaning of the prehistoric cave paintings, like those discovered earlier in southern France and northern Spain, became a topic of fertile interdisciplinary discussion. Some saw in these beasts...