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As the cognoscenti define it, duende (pronounced DWEHN-deh) is a `magical quality, of a peculiarly Spanish nature, that raises a performance to peaks of enthrallment.
Rudolph Giuliani has managed to make himself a laughingstock to the cognoscenti by threatening to de-fund the Brooklyn Museum of Art if it doesn't cancel an art show that includes (according to today's New York Times ) "a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with a clump of elephant dung."
What on earth makes Chatterbox ("") think that the "cognoscenti" of New York like the recent work of Maureen Dowd any better then their counterparts in Washington do?