Word: connoisseurs
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...quite so far up Mass Ave is Sacco and Vanzetti's hangout-Emack and Bolio's. This store has excellent ice cream by the standards of even a Harvard ice cream connoisseur-and it's cheaper than Steve...
...unfortunate effect of such invective is to obscure Heller's strength as a connoisseur of absurdity. When his novel is as good as gold, it is a stinging satire etched in acid. The rest of the time, it is only a polemic finger-painted in bile...
Sometimes works of art are reported stolen to order for connoisseurs. But experts at the Delaware conference said that art thieves usually are not specialists. Rather, they are the same sort of criminals who steal automobiles, TV sets and jewelry. "Let me dispel some myths," said Gilbert Raguideau, a French government expert on the subject. "There is no mastermind, no international art Mafia. We all have heard the legend of the mad, rich connoisseur who buys stolen masterworks. He does not exist." The works are sold to frequently unsuspecting collectors in the U.S. and abroad through dealers who care more...
What aficionado has not been confined in a summer cottage on a rainy day with someone who does not know about thrillers and keeps announcing every 40 pages who killed Roger Ackroyd or who has :he key to the locked room? The connoisseur knows that the fun of a suspense novel lies not in competing with the author but in admiring his craft...
...magazine's ranking expert on European politics), was summoned to New York by Luce for a surprising assignment: to be an assistant managing editor of the fledgling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. He became its second managing editor four years later. Outwardly brusque but actually shy, Laguerre was a connoisseur of cigars, race horses, the St. Louis Cardinals and journalistic prose that met his own exacting, cant-free standards. He turned the struggling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED into a solid financial success by restyling its format, pioneering the use of extensive news color photography and developing a staff of diverse, talented writers. After serving...