New York Times: My Perspiration is None of Your Business

Remember “one”, that useful generic pronoun? Is it, like, extinct or something? Even for newspaper dinosaurs?

Ms. Madden is 59, blond, with a personal style so warm and focused that after a while you begin to sweat.

Also, I had to read this sentence three times, and it still don’t parse:

“There ain’t no phone and there never will be,” Ms. Madden says, an elocution it is difficult to imagine being used by a certain blond home furnishing design force, whose enormous shadow Ms. Madden can never quite escape.

But who cares about grammar: you can still buy an apartment on Beekman Place for $600,000!

by Left Hook | 9 September 2007 | personal hells | Comments