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...eatery offers snacks from bagels to Godiva chocolates and drinks from Nantucket Nectars to specialty blends from the Republic of Tea. (The discriminating tea connoisseur can choose from the exotic Dragon Well, advertised as ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu's Tea, to the more mundane Earl Grey.) For $1.25, a weary English concentrator can grab a regular cup of coffee to perk up before glancing through Cliffs Notes to Jane Austen's Emma, which can be found on the third floor...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: A Fresh Look For Coop Bookstore | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

...playing like the f--Colts!" shouted an obvious NFL connoisseur...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, | Title: Fan-Friendly | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

ARRESTED. TODD MICHAEL VOLPE, 48, high-wheeling art dealer whose star clientele included Jack Nicholson; on 38 counts of mail and wire fraud; in Waterville Valley, N.H. A connoisseur of turn-of-the-century artwork, Volpe allegedly swindled his clients out of more than $2.5 million by using such tactics as passing off counterfeit works and secretly selling art that was on consignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 14, 1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

Upshaw and Goode consistently performed with great subtlety, beyond what the reviewer's ear could discern. Thanks to the Bank-Boston folks for concluding so brilliantly a season of such amazing, connoisseur-pleasing virtuosos...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: A Spring Night's Dream of a Concert | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

...mania has now produced a spate of books--catnip for the nostalgia connoisseur and the mogul hoping to extend his franchise line and move the vintage-cartoon cassettes off the video-store shelves. Warner Books has published Chuck Reducks, the second (after Chuck Amuck) memoir of Warner Bros.' cartoon glory years by its major double-domo, Chuck Jones. Turner Publishing, literary outlet for the owner of mgm cartoons, honors animation's wildest spirit with John Canemaker's handsome Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-55. It is essentially a reprint of Pierre Lambert's original, one of four French books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTOONS ARE NO LAUGHING MATTER | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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