Word: connoisseurs
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...Explained Collingwood later: "We couldn't have a technician fiddling with the First Lady's person." From her first whispery words, Jackie put on an expert performance in telling how she and her advisory committee have redecorated the White House. Without notes or prompting, she showed a connoisseur's knowledge of every antique and objet d'art that came into view (only one scene had to be refilmed; Jackie momentarily confused a Dolley Madison sofa with one of Nelly Custis'). She easily rattled off the names of bygone artists and cabinetmakers, displayed an impressive knowledge...
...pledged $1,000,000 to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Their stable of race horses is first rate: one filly, Idun, won $392,490 before her retirement two years ago. Paul, a talented violinist, is a leading patron of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His wife is an art connoisseur and a collector of Meissen china...
...genius for letter writing aside, the son was a familiar type of cultivated societies-the fussy, dilettantish, delicately feline bachelor, a connoisseur of wit and, even more, of social oddities and human blemishes. Horace carefully examined every ointment, hoping to discover a fly in it, minutely tested every piece of armor, hoping to encounter a crack; yet in all this there was less malice than sense of metier. As Beau Brummell dressed for future ages, or Lucullus dined, Walpole peered into corners. But he had, too, his more special, often laborious pursuits: Strawberry Hill, the house he built...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'ldiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Between them, Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature, and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...