Word: connoisseurs
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...more commendable manner." Small planets in the gravitational field of an immense talent, some would eventually break out of orbit to make independent careers for themselves, but all of them -- while they were with Rembrandt -- had to work his way or not at all. Hence the peculiar fact, a connoisseur's bad dream, that the very parts of Rembrandt's work that seem most uniquely his -- the "unconscious" hookings and flourishes of line in some of the drawings, for instance -- were just what apprentices like Ferdinand Bol were best at imitating. The more gifted ones would work on parts...
...Author Morris West (The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Clowns of God) fills his palette with informed descriptions of the cutthroat gallery world and furnishes his novel with subplots concerning financial shenanigans in Zurich, the ski slopes of St.-Moritz and a murder in Manhattan. West, a longtime connoisseur, knows about the art of the deal and the dealing...
Even established magazines have felt the need for a boost. Hearst Corp. decided to shake up House Beautiful, Redbook and Connoisseur by appointing new editors. The most notable shift will be at Connoisseur, where editor in chief Thomas Hoving, former head of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be replaced by Gael Love, who edited Fame...
...must admit that I do not deserve to be considered a ((wine)) connoisseur," writes Richard Nixon in Forbes FYI, a new supplement to the business magazine. The former President's article provides evidence that his modesty is well placed. The Sage of Saddle River proffers advice that wine lovers will recognize as misleading or downright wrong. Never chill a red wine, he decrees. In fact, most Beaujolais and some other fruity reds benefit from cool temperatures. Nixon says California's consistent climate renders vintage years virtually irrelevant as a guide to quality, a claim that would be disputed...
There are two things a Highlander likes naked, goes an old Scottish saying, and one of them is malt whisky. Of late, the Kiltie's distilled delight has become an international connoisseur's joy. After several lackluster years, sales of Scotch worldwide (although not in the U.S.) are on the rise, led by the rare, distinctive whiskies known as single malts. The malts constitute only about 3.5% of all Scotch sales, but their dollar-value share of the market is twice that because of their relatively high price tags. Overall, sales have jumped from 1 million cases...