Word: connoisseurship
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...photos of undressed cuties, and in court decisions that allowed the publication of sexually frank novels like D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. But pornography was something most people hid under the mattress. Eros was different. It said that sex wasn't dirty; it was a mark of connoisseurship. Eros was clean, a literary and lithographic work of art. Pristinely produced by art director Herb Lubalin, in an elegantly oversized format on both matte and glossy paper, and with hardback covers, it was meant to be displayed. It was a coffee-table magazine, the American Heritage of sexual literacy...
...more predictable and a little less exciting. “Fab Four Suture,” the band’s latest release, culls together a year or so of music, previously released only on vinyl, and packs it into a single album, available, depending on your level of connoisseurship, as a CD, a limited edition double 10”, or a triple 7”. Variety’s great, but the elaborate release strategy for “Fab Four,” the group’s fourteenth full-length album, hints at something else: this music...
...taken 50 years, but what was dismissed as preadolescent fetishizing is finally being recognized as trailblazing connoisseurship. And if you don't believe it, go to a museum and see for yourself...
...perennial motif. Or getting lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...nibble on feather-light champagne cognac truffles and fresh garden-mint chocolates while relaxing to live piano music on weekends. At Moonstruck Chocolate Caf in Beaverton, Ore., patrons attuned to the nuances of flavor order several pieces of chocolate with varying percentages of cacao beans. While the confections and connoisseurship may be less rarefied at the more mainstream shops, they too encourage customers to linger. At Ethel's, which promotes itself as "a place to chocolate and chitchat," patrons can chew the butterfat over the chocolate trivia cards planted at a few tables...