Sublime

She mailed the marked-up copy to Harold Ross, the founding editor, and Ross was said to have bellowed. What he bellowed was “Find this bitch and hire her!”

He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.

On her frame, angular but soft, a baggy T-shirt is coded as “low-maintenance,” not “sloppy”; a ponytail is “sleek,” not “tennis ball on top of a mini-fridge.” Not only can she pull off ugly clothes, like sports sandals, or “boyfriend jeans,” they somehow make her beauty thrum even more clearly.

The “taste” of tastemakers means personal preference, the discernment that we all apply to figure out what we like, whether in music, fashion, food, or literature.

Opulent Tips.

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Knight Landesman,

The food, I might mention, was unremarkable in every way other than its cost.