Word: connoisseurs
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...Christmas. Her appreciation of what Ben Jonson called the milk of Venus broadened a bit during her travels as a TIME correspondent: in London the cellar of Justerini & Brooks was downstairs from her office. While reporting for this week's cover story on American wines, Delaney became a connoisseur of magnum-size skills...
Seeger's intellectualism may rub some connoisseur of Country music or the blues the wrong way. But it will do so only if the so-called expert tries to take Seeger on terms different from Seeger's own. For if Seeger ever fancied himself as another Guthrie (and I doubt he ever did), he has for a long time made himself perfectly clear: his mission is not to be Woody, but to inspire the love for people's songs and the rugged America which made the boy from Oklahoma tick. And Seeger has a further mission, which is political...
Today the cavelike walls of Let There Be Neon are decorated with some 80 classic objects of the fading art. There is something to fit the taste of every neon connoisseur, from a 1938 WE RENT TUXEDOS AND BRIDAL GOWNS sign ($125) to a magnificent $225 fixture reading IRVING'S KOSHER. For those with a political bent, there is a huge sign exhorting the voters to ELECT LAZZARA SENATOR for $100. ("We don't know if he won or not," says Romanoff.) The gallery also includes some contemporary fixtures designed especially for home decorating: large neon circles...
Confusing? Yes. No connoisseur of the genre would accept less. Yet the best parts of Hone's espionage novel have nothing to do with espionage. His hero, far from being the traditional gun-and-karate spy, is a mournful reincarnation of the wandering Irishman, someone whose way of escaping from Egypt is to hitch a ride on a Land Rover with an Anglican clergyman who is setting off with beagle-like optimism to expand the parish in the Saharan sands around Tobruk...
...backing sealed to the cloth, making lining unnecessary. Bonding also makes laces and other ravelly materials as easy to sew as calico. Besides an ever-expanding market of synthetics, textilers now offer fake furs, machine-washable woolens, washable crushproof velvet and even washable suede. Some materials can set the connoisseur back more than $100 a yard, but she is apt to find them a bargain. Says Manhattan Socialite Belkis Ertegun: "I have a hunger for clothes. I want something new every minute, and yet I think it's criminal to spend $6,000 a month on clothes...