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Scoops and Beans gets two gloved thumbs up from this ice cream connoisseur. This tiny store on JFK Street is the Neiman-Marcus of the local ice cream shops. Shopping here increases the pleasure quotient of my ritual. The menu is immense, as are the portions, but not the prices. There is an impressive selection of frozen yogurt flavors, ranging from the nothing-in-them variety to the I-can't-believe-this-is-low-fat sort...
DIED. PETER LUDWIG, 71, chocolate manufacturer and art connoisseur; of a ruptured colon; in Aachen, Germany. His collection of 144 illuminated medieval manuscripts was the most important assembled by an individual...
...Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told a town-hall gathering in April...
Hodgkin, whose good-luck god is the French intimiste Edouard Vuillard (he of the dots, of the closely tuned interior scenes that vibrate with a sense of life amply lived and yet separate from public events), is a connoisseur and collector as well as an artist. The two don't necessarily go together. Good taste never made a new picture yet. There is, and ought to be, something immoderate and crazy about painting that goes beyond acts of taste and comparison. Hodgkin's failures may be the outcome of too much taste, not too little, but he is a glutton...
...connoisseur of friendship," former Leverett resident Stephen S. Rosenfeld '53 told The New York Times...