Word: connoisseurs
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France's late President first announced in 1969 that he would give Paris "a landmark of our time." A connoisseur and collector of art, Pompidou was dismayed by Paris' gradual loss of stature as an art capital. He dreamed of a building that would be "both a museum and a center for creation, where the plastic arts would exist alongside music, cinema, books, audio-visual research. Its creativity would obviously be modern and continually changing." The location: Beaubourg, once a bourgeois neighborhood between the Bastille and Les Halles, but for the past century a decaying slum. Specifically, planners...
...relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination of the spark...
...ponderous tones, Rosovsky sits jiggling his gavel. When asked whether Spence's list of suggested improvements can be implemented by next fall, Rosovsky answered by saying, "How long does it take to open a pizza shop?" When a student referred to an anti-Fox leaflet, Rosovsky, rather like a connoisseur of protest literature, asked cheerfully, "Is there a leaflet? Can I see it?" And finally, when two students affirmed the obvious by saying they were not administrators, Rosovsky said, "I think you guys are well on your way to administrative jobs...
...live music too, but it tends toward the folkish and is always full of rather bizarre people who are looking for someone to pick up. Not cheap, but they have a better selection of wines than most places around--although if you're setting yourself up as a wine connoisseur, you should probably go to the Wine Bar in the garage instead--but prepared to spend...
...Agnew), Airforce One (Agnew and Ehrlichman), and Camp David (Ehrlichman). The material spoils of power are given prominent places in both books: the authors dwell on chauffeur-driven limos, deferring butlers and maids, posh furnishings, fancy restaurants, sumptuous Government repasts (Agnew likes to show that he's a connoisseur by having Canfield comment on the quality of food and wine), and above all, alcohol. Booze, according to these novels, almost swirls down the gutters of Washington's streets, greasing the wheels of efficient government...