Word: connoisseurs
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...Magritte's image of a vast, cold Alpine wall seen through the broken window of a bourgeois living room, with shards of glass on the floor that still carry bits of the sublime view on them, is the title of Poe's 1846 tale about a superrich American landscape connoisseur who creates a Xanadu for himself. "Let us imagine," says Poe's hero, "a landscape whose combined vastness and definitiveness -- whose united beauty, magnificence and strangeness shall convey the idea of care, or culture . . . on the part of beings superior, yet akin to humanity . . ." Yes, one can well imagine Magritte...
After last month's big quakes, Los Angeles wine connoisseur Dennis Overstreet realized that the next one might demolish his cellars. Party! Two dozen friends helped him consume a six-liter 1982 Chateau Petrus (value: $9,000). Says he: "And we didn't have to drink it from a sponge...
...beginning to suspect I'd misunderstood GWAR's target audience. These people were attracted to the concert not because they were curious about the boundaries of absurdity, but because they were connoisseur of violence. They seemed to be enjoying this a little too genuinely...
...magazines. But AIDS and the conservative backlash seem to have matured the community, ripening the Advocate into a newsmagazine and evoking such other debuts as QW and Genre. Of these, the glossy, full-color Out is the most professional looking, drawing contributors from the Los Angeles Times, the late Connoisseur and Ms., as well as mainstream advertising from Benetton, Absolut vodka, Geffen records and Viking Penguin press. Says editor Michael Goff: "We're called Out because coming out is the one thing all gays and lesbians have in common." The problem: it may be the only thing they have...
...central Italy, the small Emilian city of Cento, in 1967. His rediscovery was due almost entirely to the love and labors of one English art historian, the late Denis Mahon, who wrote the basic texts on him, defined the canon of his work and was probably the last connoisseur to "own" single- handedly a major European artist in this...