Whether Mr Wright's claim is believed, especially by bitcoin cognoscenti, matters nonetheless.
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Mike Bloomberg was a popular mayor among the New York tech cognoscenti.
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But beyond the contemporary art cognoscenti, he is far from a household name.
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They were suitable for cognoscenti but not for novices or rusty yeshiva alumni.
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But it was the more subtle things that gave tennis cognoscenti goose bumps.
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But this time the chattering cognoscenti of social media had plenty to say.
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So it may not matter if the new iPhones underwhelmed the tech cognoscenti.
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Verizon Communications' $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo has the technology cognoscenti scratching their heads.
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And for all of Cruz's delegate scrambling, fetishized by the political cognoscenti, Trump still won.
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Trump was a target throughout the evening for the glittering Hollywood cognoscenti, directly or indirectly.
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Steinway pianos are coveted by piano-cognoscenti and command prices of tens of thousands of dollars.
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But today's design cognoscenti may like the modest dwellings for the simple reason an earlier generation did.
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By tapping Mr. Stiefel, she is also appealing to a broader audience, not just the ballet cognoscenti.
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Which makes this latest offering, her first new play in nine years, an event for theater cognoscenti.
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Smaller shops could even lose privileges if they didn't sell enough, reducing their draw among the watch cognoscenti.
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Criminal justice cognoscenti make clear that we can't expect too much criminal justice reform from a Trump Administration.
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He was a darkroom master, maintaining technical standards for which he got scant credit except among certain cognoscenti.
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The Biennale can be daunting for those who are not art cognoscenti or participants in the art world.
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Indeed, there are boxing cognoscenti willing to wager that McGregor won't be able to land a single blow.
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All of which is to say, he has loads of cred out there and a name the cognoscenti recognize.
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Founded in 2012, Blue Apron is well known among the cognoscenti of podcasts and other media popular with millennials.
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As the culture changed, their works, never mainstream, became obscure to all but a tiny subset of the cognoscenti.
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There he associated with the black musical cognoscenti of Manhattan, including Bert Williams, J. Rosamond Johnson and Bob Cole.
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The loving send-ups of arcane detail tickle the cognoscenti, while the perfectly timed slapstick offers belly laughs for all.
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Their No. 2 overall rookie quarterback Carson Wentz had his detractors among the football cognoscenti, but had been undeniably effective.
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Whether people, particularly bitcoin cognoscenti, actually believe Mr Wright will depend greatly on what he does next, after going public.
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The cognoscenti of duckpin often pause before describing Bisson Sykes's talent and impact, as if searching for the proper superlative.
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PARELES Among jazz cognoscenti, Ahmad Jamal's importance is usually taken as a given, but rarely celebrated as it should be.
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While the liberal political cognoscenti mocked Trump for his lack of "ground game," these groups provided a more than adequate substitute.
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And even if the tech cognoscenti no longer rave about Apple's designs, there's little sign that their griping has affected sales.
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Meade first sang the part at the Caramoor Festival, in 2009, wowing cognoscenti with her immaculate coloratura and gleaming high notes.
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But it is the pair's status as the Lewis and Clark of the digital frontier that has impressed the techno cognoscenti.
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It's a wonderful blend of high and low that's perfect for audiences new to opera and for the more adventurous cognoscenti alike.
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Still, not every member of the music collectible cognoscenti were as bearish on a talking Master P doll as Brian Kellogg was.
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The middle-class cognoscenti is in shock, unable to comprehend that the entire nation actually does not share their near-fascistic Weltanschauung.
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Clinton, we're told by the cognoscenti of the press, was presidential, polished and substantive, while GOP nominee Trump was undisciplined, angry and petty.
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Warhol was hardly a nature buff, but a Provincetown gig seemed like the best way to reach the New York cognoscenti come August.
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It could be that there are in-jokes for the cognoscenti in these encounters, but the audience for these will not be large.
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Revered in his native Germany and among the photographic cognoscenti, Mr. Ruff, 59, has often seemed a little outside the art-world mainstream.
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Something about the way they play — and win, prolifically — entices the basketball cognoscenti to scrutinize every dribble, every pass, every cut, every screen.
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Many in the Republican cognoscenti compared his killing to former President Barack Obama's decision to take out Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
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The ray of hope is that out on the campaign trail voters rarely ask about the scandals du jour, which obsess the cognoscenti.
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Meister credits David Schomer, co-founder of Espresso Vivace, for popularizing the latte (and also latte art) among coffee cognoscenti in the Pacific Northwest.
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The guests drank white wine and rosé as the elevator door opened and opened again, delivering into the open space a cross section of cognoscenti.
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Nearly 100 years old, Cogolin is one of those French cultural treasures that has remained a secret address for the design cognoscenti through the decades.
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Yet there are also other seminal ones — Walter Albini and Romeo Gigli come to mind — that nowadays are sadly unfamiliar to all but dedicated cognoscenti.
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But at Mr Hashimoto's place, among the true cognoscenti, for all the affection in which the characters and their creators are held, the game's the thing.
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The secret to a happy Thanksgiving lies in half-quart vessels that once held Chinese soup, or, as the cognoscenti more simply call them, deli containers.
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Pleasing the New York/Washington D.C. cognoscenti and the woke Twitter police matter not at all — in fact, they are very profitable (and easily duped) foils.
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As Romney's 2012 experience suggests, is there a point where the collective cognoscenti will declare the race over before either of those two conditions are met?
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In a universe where the best basketball prospects are minutely dissected from their freshman years of high school, the collective whiff among the cognoscenti is stunning.
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When it comes to the edible stars of the show — made using a complex technique — they too, in the view of the pancake cognoscenti, are flawless.
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I was very happy with it, and the people who came to see it, the cognoscenti, if you like, said this is what Broadway should be.
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The longest, skinniest, most extreme South American nation has become an architecture pilgrimage among cognoscenti looking to discover the future of buildings — and of Modernism, too.
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And in Maxine Waters, one of the longest-serving public servants in the House of Representatives, the cognoscenti have found an emblem of humor and justifiable outrage.
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Grace Wales Bonner Grace Wales Bonner, 26, has sent the fashion cognoscenti into a spin with her daring approach to gender and race via ultra-luxe design.
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On the ground, there are murmurings among the state's political cognoscenti of a late surge by the Massachusetts senator, especially if caucusgoers feel last-minute misgivings about Sanders.
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Still, Contramar is so beloved by the cognoscenti of Mexico City that it is hard to imagine that Ms. Cámara will not be embraced as a prodigal daughter.
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The gesture proved prophetic: within a decade, surging Pop art and minimalism had rendered de Kooning and his many followers, in the eyes of art-world cognoscenti, pitiably passé.
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For decades, he's run in elections that the political cognoscenti has given him no chance of winning — and managed to shock them by winning a fair amount of them.
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On Tuesday, the "Charlie Rose" show, long patronized by the public-television-watching cognoscenti, was shelved after allegations that its urbane host was a chronic harasser of young women.
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Provided a group of crypto-cognoscenti has the will, the skills and oodles of computing power, it can conjure a new digital currency into existence—and, perhaps, even create value.
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Success in the business was measured in those days not by social media metrics but by an ability to bewitch the cognoscenti, to make yours a name they whispered about.
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If he had won Sunday night, the cognoscenti would have said victory proved the aging sprinter was doping or still benefiting from his decade-old use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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He also has a very good reputation among the fashion cognoscenti in Milan, but he is not by any definition a star, or even a known quantity, outside the business.
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Showing your cards — admitting that you're willing to surrender your last remaining ace — in exchange for the approval of the DC cognoscenti … well, surely that's a mistake Democrats won't make.
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This is within striking distance of Ethereum's market cap, but unlike cryptocurrencies, which have been obsessed over by the tech cognoscenti, e-cigarettes emerged from gas stations and bodegas seemingly overnight.
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Apple cognoscenti still expect Cook and company to use the event to highlight evolutionary, not revolutionary, product updates: A smaller iPhone, a revamped iPad and tweaks to the Apple Watch line.
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Yet his manifesto also elicited eye-rolling from some of the digital cognoscenti, who felt that the state had an essential role if the internet were to become a mainstream medium.
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It's a bit shocking that David Sarnoff's name isn't as recognizable as any of those mentioned above, or as Henry Ford's or even Thomas Edison's, at least among the tech cognoscenti.
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" Even better, he added, is that "this isn't taking place out in the middle of nowhere, where you have to make a journey, and only the art cognoscenti know about it.
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Though Ms. Jackson holds a special place in the hearts of film and theater cognoscenti, she hadn't exercised her acting muscles — or even attended the theater — during her years in Parliament.
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It is both speed-dating at high altitude for the cognoscenti and a cerebral affair filled with panel conversations about issues such as gender diversity, harassment, artificial intelligence and the environment.
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A book published last year, "Kunst Im Klub" ("Art in the Club"), documented the club's close ties with Berlin's art cognoscenti, notably Wolfgang Tillmans, the Turner prize-winning photographer and techno fan.
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In fact Mr Sayer was a nice, funny, ordinary chap, brought up in Liverpool and living in Bolton; station cognoscenti, despite his perfect, classless diction, could still detect the northerner in him.
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News cognoscenti are already well aware of RT's lineage, but to get through to those who read and believe the network will require more than the fine print in a government filing.
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Some of them — Miller, Edward Albee, August Wilson, Tony Kushner and Sam Shepard — are names with instant recognition value; others, such as Adrienne Kennedy and Lee Blessing, are known principally to theater cognoscenti.
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Since the 1970s, when Antonio Inoki founded it, New Japan and the style of wrestling it evangelized—wrestling as combat sport, not carnival act—has served as a reference point for the wrestling cognoscenti.
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Specifically, people outside the establishment game reviewing cognoscenti, a small group of individuals who tend to review the "big" games, and thus set the tone for how a game is perceived and talked about.
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And theater cognoscenti lined up for the privilege of sitting from morning into night on hard benches that left no bum unnumbed, as they watched an international cast of dozens suffer, ponder and die.
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Featured prominently is the now-iconic imperial yellow cape worn by Rihanna to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in 2015 — a seminal moment that introduced Guo Pei to America's fashion cognoscenti.
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When the Tin Building — an archaic misnomer, as the market was actually sheathed in galvanized steel — replaced it, the efficiency of the new structure's design was greeted with giddy celebration by the fishmonger cognoscenti.
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Hibiscus has long held cult status among fashion cognoscenti, and a 2003 profile in T Magazine by Horacio Silva counts Viktor & Rolf and John Galliano among the contemporary designers who revere his creativity and talent.
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Still, the political cognoscenti is rarely in the mood to give Trump the benefit of the doubt on anything like this — particularly after fired FBI Director James Comey's testimony that Trump wanted "loyalty" from him.
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Only a year ago, the Washington cognoscenti, the less politically sophisticated big donors and the London oddsmakers all figured that the son and brother of presidents was a solid favorite to clinch the Republican nomination.
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Considered a timepiece for cognoscenti, not first-time buyers, the company typically parcels them out in limited numbers to dealers, who, in turn, set aside the few they can get for their most loyal customers.
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The hotel, on the Place Vendôme, has long been a haven for the fashion cognoscenti, and Gabrielle Chanel — the founder of the fashion house — lived there for almost 35 years until her death in 1971.
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This Manhattan society matron had a voice so mewlingly, screechingly, ear-assaultingly off-key that, by the time of her death in 1944, she had become a kind of minor musical joke among the classical cognoscenti.
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Its look, in other words, manages to marry the hard-edged, challenging aesthetic favoured by the design cognoscenti, with the more user-friendly feel necessary if the museum is to attract visitors already spoilt for choice.
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Which suggests that even among the Star Wars cognoscenti — the kind of people who spent years coming up with theories about Rey or Supreme Leader Snoke only to see them squashed — the movie has outsized appeal.
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The crypto-currency cognoscenti made a lot of money investing in bitcoin and other tokens and have cash to invest (as The Economist went to press, the value of all ether in circulation was nearly $5bn).
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It's a stance that has raised a few eyebrows among the lithium cognoscenti but FMC claims "our manufacturing network is highly flexible, which allows us to increase capacity or accelerate expansion plans as customer needs warrant".
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Popular views of the Federal Reserve are that of an all-knowing "council of the wise," a sort of economics cognoscenti that pull levers in the economy using sophisticated equations that the mere layman wouldn't understand.
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"To date, smartwatches have remained in the realm of brand loyalists and tech cognoscenti, but we expect that to change over the next few years," Ramon Llamas, research manager for IDC's wearables team, said in a statement.
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He has long been a familiar name in the political cognoscenti (long enough so that the old saw about a person who manages to be "a rising star in three different decades" has been applied to him).
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LONDON — It's that time of year again: Frieze Week, when London's museums, galleries and exhibition venues pull out all the stops to attract the legions of international collectors, curators, museum directors, patrons and cognoscenti flying into town.
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Greenland has recently been a hobbyhorse among some cognoscenti and the Davos crowd given the threat of a warming planet and the vast real estate, to say nothing of its other resources, the territory administered by Denmark possesses.
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But some body cognoscenti — the resistance band, if you will — are calling it quits on the sculpting and spinning circuit and taking up old-school physical pursuits that many of us think of as the preserve of childhood.
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Now, two authors offer competing fictional versions of the lost journal, exploring, with mixed results, Meyer's fervid affair with the president, her wily misadventures among the Capitol cognoscenti and the snooping disposition that may have gotten her killed.
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That's not to say that walking in isn't a touch intimidating: low-intensity club beats whose backing vocals seem to have been imprinted on the lips of the attending cognoscenti at birth, décor that is strictly rave-bondage-meets-future-Tokyo.
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" In a post for WBUR's Cognoscenti site, "Teaching Trump: Rethinking Civic Education In Turbulent Times," Mike Kalin argues that "Trump's vitriolic rhetoric, and his history of demonizing marginalized groups, obligates teachers to reconsider their beliefs about how to approach civic education.
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There are 212 haute couture Saint Laurent creations, many of them runway prototypes, as well as shoes and hats and handbags and 215 ready-to-wear garments of a type that would all be instantly recognizable to cognoscenti as Catroux signatures.
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There are 212 haute couture Saint Laurent creations, many of them runway prototypes, as well as shoes and hats and handbags and 215 ready-to-wear garments of a type that would all be instantly recognizable to cognoscenti as Catroux signatures.
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The showcase reflects how quickly Ms. Adriana has established a reputation among jewelry cognoscenti, as well as the bevy of private collectors who line up for her latest one-of-a-kind piece (she produces only around 30 a year).
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A crowd of men's wear cognoscenti — with the requisite celebrity interlopers and hangers-on — trekked to the Far West Side of Manhattan to a dimly lighted hangar-like space for cocktails and passed hors d'oeuvres to celebrate New York Fashion Week: Men's.
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Seeing all these 100 seat dining rooms packed with people on weekday afternoons makes me wonder: In our food-obsessed culture, how long is it going to take until a member of the culinary cognoscenti exports this regional curiosity to the masses?
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Trump realized the Iraq war was misbegotten long before much of the media cognoscenti in New York, and he was willing to hold W. accountable for being asleep at the switch before 9/11 and using a bait-and-switch on Iraq.
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This sleight of hand, apparent from the first minutes to art world cognoscenti but only acknowledged two thirds of the way through the film, lends an air of deception to the entire documentary that's reminiscent of Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop.
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It also allowed him to demonstrate the Signature, the latest upgrade to a cheaper $5,500 version released in late 2016, for true cognoscenti — rather than for "a bunch of random kids who just want to pretend like they're in space," Voigt said.
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After gaining immense currency with "Christina's World," showing Christina Olson, a woman with a physical disability, crawling through a field near the Wyeth summer home in Cushing, Me., he quickly fell out of favor with the cognoscenti, though not with the public.
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Among Wall Street cognoscenti, interest in the Salman case is high as shown by supporting briefs filed by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Cato Institute and the businessman Mark Cuban, who won his own six-year battle over civil insider trading charges.
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Known among the analog cognoscenti simply as OMA, this boutique company manufactures the kind of rarefied components that audiophiles drool over: 7-foot-tall loudspeakers with conical horns, glowing tube amps nestled in walnut chassis, and turntables with slate plinths as thick as phone books.
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Long a byword for luxury and a bivouac for deposed monarchs, politicians, writers and film stars, the hotel became a particular haven for the fashion cognoscenti after Coco Chanel chose to make the Ritz her address for 35 years, until her death in 1971.
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They are the lone elite, world-class winter athletes from the isolated nation, which has only won two medals at the Winter Games, a silver and bronze in speedskating, the last coming in 1992, and they have plenty of admirers among figure skating's cognoscenti.
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While his campaign against National Football League players who kneel on the sidelines during the national anthem to protest racial injustice drew outraged protests from the sports world and Washington cognoscenti, Mr. Trump was lionized as a champion of patriotism in the conservative online world.
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Shown to an alcove table, the physician had a ringside seat on a room full of well-toned faces — some identifiable to anyone, some recognizable mostly to show business cognoscenti, a certain number familiar to Dr. Kopelson at an intimate and even microscopic level.
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Cognoscenti might even uncover vestiges of its time as a pastoral lane, one of New Amsterdam's main roads, lined with farms — "bouwerie" is Dutch for farm — including an estate belonging to Peter Stuyvesant, who is buried in the graveyard of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.
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He is anxious to move on to the main players in the Canterbury scene that blossomed when Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen, Richard Sinclair and Robert Wyatt, a close-knit band of hippies, collectively founded The Soft Machine, Caravan and Gong, among other outfits legendary among the prog cognoscenti.
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The fall brings with it film festivals, and prior to last week, the awards cognoscenti generally agreed that we'd only seen two real Oscar contenders thus far — Manchester by the Sea and The Birth of a Nation, which still has a chance to pick itself up off the mat.
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"A dinner party contains the flavor of life," says the lifelong host, who gathers together hundreds of friends, clients, journalists and fashion cognoscenti at every edition of Pitti Uomo in Florence for his own dinner party, which has become one of the most anticipated events of the week.
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There is a T-Rex mounted above the fireplace and a leopard-print pool table in the back; strings of party lights glow blue and red over the faces in the crowd, notably diverse for a neighborhood increasingly patronized by millennial cognoscenti who may or may not be employed.
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The actors' costumes were being collected largely from local thrift stores, although the costume designer had re-created some key pieces, such as Anthony's ankle-length navy-blue housecoat—instantly recognizable to cognoscenti as part of the uniform of Christ's Hospital School, a Sussex boarding school founded in 1553.
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Every January, a glittering array of the cognoscenti descend on the Alps: the tech-titan-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft; the billionaire investor George Soros; Jack Ma, the founder of China's e-commerce giant, Alibaba; and — until recently — Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany.
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If memoir is, according to serial memoirist Mark Twain's friend and adviser, William Dean Howells, "the most democratic province of the republic of letters," then it makes a certain kind of sense that critics and cognoscenti often sniff at writers who repeatedly offer up literature's answer to fried dough.
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Every January, a glittering array of the cognoscenti descend on the Alps: from the tech-titan-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to the billionaire investor George Soros, to Jack Ma, the founder of China's e-commerce giant, Alibaba, to — until recently — Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany.
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" (They also wrote a 1989 book, "Daddy's Boy," in which every chapter written by Chris Elliott about his life was followed by his father's rebuttal.) The popularity of Bob and Ray among the comedy cognoscenti spanned decades, from Groucho Marx and Johnny Carson (both fans) to "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live.
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I remember being a little confused by the relative obloquy, among art-world cognoscenti, of a related and, to my naïve eye, equally wonderful artist: Alexander Calder , whose mobiles had taken Miró's influence to literal heights, with variations on the Catalan's repertoire of catchy, nature-allusive forms suspended in air.
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An elite, halfway-underground network of scientists, sages, eccentrics, and psychedelic cognoscenti—including Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and Saskatchewan-based psychiatrist Humphry Osmond—had started experimenting with psychedelics including mescaline and LSD in the mid-1950s, believing the drugs to be powerful conduits to transcendental, other-worldly experiences.
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But Bourdain also wants the market to have an old-fashioned butcher shop, with "guys in bloody aprons breaking down sections of meat," and Asian street food that will attract not just the Eater -reading cognoscenti but also displaced Asians in New York who yearn for a genuine taste of home.
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Her work spent decades as a well-kept secret of the cognoscenti of the art of the American Southwest, and the Transcendental Painting Group, whose members had lived around Santa Fe, N.M. Pelton joined that group in 26 (it disbanded in 225), though she lived near Palm Springs, in Cathedral City, Calif.
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It's impossible to overstate tenor sax man's influence on the genre, but here are a few of the bullet points: While he initially worked in established milieus, Rollins continuously toyed with the lineups of his groups, made inroads with other styles of music, and fell in and out of vogue with the jazz cognoscenti.
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It attacks "the nattering of the cognoscenti—the media elite, the professional political class and the people largely insulated or directly benefitting from the failures of the last seven years," while also defending Trump's populist appeal and skating over the fact that the Observer and Kushner are very much a part of that elite.
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Suddenly, the Hujar exhibition became destination viewing for style cognoscenti, who made a point of stopping off in Chelsea between Proenza Schouler and Rodarte for a glimpse of Hujar's hauntingly luminous portraits of Mr. Waters, Fran Lebowitz, Susan Sontag, the drag performer Ethyl Eichelberger and the Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling on her deathbed.
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Art in this era has veered dramatically toward an approach that hasn't been seen in the West for more than 1,000 years: a concerted urge, almost a rage, to be totally communicative to the largest possible audiences, addressing cognoscenti, novices, and newcomers in the same register, telling stories of social, political, and philosophical conditions.
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Finally, what I think really bugs the cognoscenti is his stance as a fundamentally traditional artist intent on foregrounding the expressive capabilities of paint and graphite, just as the poets who have been his lifelong friends (Ron Padgett, Robert Creeley, David Shapiro, Vincent Katz, and many others) are intent on plumbing the expressive potential of words.
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Here's a preview of Andrew's column on Davos and Mr. Trump, assuming that the president will still leave Washington for the Swiss Alps: It is both speed-dating at high altitude for the cognoscenti and a cerebral high-minded affair filled with panel conversations around issues such as gender diversity, harassment, artificial intelligence and the environment.
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With well over 100 runway shows and presentations plus countless parties at venues around the city - including from top names such as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren, which is marking its 50th anniversary on Friday with a Central Park gala - buyers, media and fashion cognoscenti will be hard-pressed to fit in smaller, lesser-known houses.
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SIX months ago the cognoscenti of Turtle Bay, the UN's location on the east side of Manhattan, were pretty sure that the next head of the nearest thing to a world government would—for the first time on two counts—be an east European and a woman, quite likely the one who runs UNESCO, the UN's education and culture agency.
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Peter Baker had the latest version of this argument Sunday at the New York Times: While his campaign against National Football League players who kneel on the sidelines during the national anthem to protest racial injustice drew outraged protests from the sports world and Washington cognoscenti, Mr. Trump was lionized as a champion of patriotism in the conservative online world.
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He wrote guidebooks and lectured for the cognoscenti, Americans and Canadians who appreciated the history, topography and perilous beauty of their wilderness strongholds, and for those who hoped to test their mettle on glacial escarpments with rope, ice ax and aching limbs for the reward of standing on the crown of a mountain called Terror or Despair, overlooking a vast panorama of the world.
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How President Trump could abuse big data and the surveillance state In the gun control wars that erupted again in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre and subsequent mass shootings, there is one technology that Silicon Valley tech cognoscenti, East Coast media types, and progressive politicians from across America have all settled on as a viable part of a long-term solution to the nation's gun violence problem: the smart gun.
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" The most attractive as well as intellectually substantial sections in the book are Gopnik's meditations on SoHo in those years, and what it was like to be there on a Saturday morning, with the cognoscenti making the rounds of the galleries, armed with the insider knowledge that soon very rich people would be owning what they were now appraising better than the collectors ever could — and here Gopnik has something interesting to say about all the hip people who "loved the art that critiqued the system of commodification, without seeing that a system of commodification was exactly what had allowed the critique to emerge in ways it never could where commodification was prohibited.
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