Word: connoisseurs
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...although the cappucino and espresso aren't terrific. Outdoor seating in newly bohemain Holyoke Center draws crowds--watch for the break dancers and the jazz players. Coffee Connection (The Garage): Boasting a list of international brews longer that the course catalogue, the Coffee Connection is for the serious connoisseur who knows what he she wants. If you're stymied, try the Brazilian and branch, out from there. The cheese platters and desserts are not bad: the atmosphere's less languid than some true schmoozers would wish. Cafe Pamplona (12 Bow St.): One of the Square's chic spots, packed...
...love John Travolta in Moment by Moment? Did you swoon for Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu? Then you are a true connoisseur of incompetence, and you won't want to miss Two of a Kind. Five years ago, these two appealing stars teamed for the monster hit Grease. Now Writer-Director John Herzfeld has chosen a different 1978 hit to emulate and trash: Heaven Can Wait. God (the voice of Gene Hackman) sends a quartet of angels (led by Charles Durning) to earth to help a couple of mean-mouthed losers (guess who?). Nothing works: not the whimsy...
...culture is intermittently fascinated by the noonday goblin-the sense that something is askew within the well lit, the ordinary, and that the closer you peer the odder it gets. Jennifer Bartlett, whose recent paintings are currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark a full assumption of powers: the idiom is assembled, the grammar wrought, the experiences wholly understood. So it is with this show of Bartlett's, whose unlikely motif is a dull little French garden, and whose prevailing mood...
...disappearing into the denim egalitarianism of the time. It never could, of course. It just changed form; and the Revolution, while it lasted, enforced its own snobberies, its own political and even psychic pretensions. Today, snobbery is back in more familiar channels. A generation of high-gloss magazines (Connoisseur, Architectural Digest, House and Garden, for example) flourishes by telling Americans what the right look is. The American ideal of the Common Man seems to have got lost somewhere; the Jacksonian theme was overwhelmed by the postwar good life and all the dreamy addictions of the best brand names. The citizen...
Master of nuance, connoisseur of transparent things, Vladimir Nabokov disliked the blunt instruments of art. "I remember with delight," he liked to say, "tearing apart Don Quixote, a cruel and crude old book, before six hundred students . . ." Yet he lectured on the book at Harvard, partly because it was required reading but also because it struck some chord in the speaker. The lectures, reconstructed by Editor Fredson Bowers, disclose reasons for that resonance...