But Apfel has seized the imagination not as a couture fashion plate but as an example to a free-spirited, adventurous New York mindset that, these days, seems in danger of getting lost beneath the anodyne beauty of a Manhattan aesthetic that worships cosmetic dentistry and blow-drying above individuality or creativity.
The great shame for rural and regional people is that a once head-kicking party representing country interests has become an anodyne shadow of its former self.
In a fairly anodyne STV Q&A, Nicola Sturgeon was pressed heavily on the prospects of holding a second independence referendum in Scotland in the next 10 years, which she refused to rule out.
'They're the lowest form of humour.' He explains that one of the reasons they are so anodyne now is because it's offensive subjects that really make us laugh.
– bdonegan We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to be able to choose from a range of bland anodyne politicians with their mindless slogans.
She appears to have had a childhood so prosperous and conventional as to be anodyne: her father a hotel manager, she lived in Germany until she was eight, before returning to England and attending a private Catholic girls' school in Surrey.
An "immersive theatre" experience, it reminded me, not for the first time, of the gulf between traditional fairytales and the more anodyne, modern stories for the young.
For all the big talk, this is sweet, anodyne lager, its flavours (spiciness, sherbet lemons) faint blips on the radar.
On seeing Hoy zip across the line first Trott jumped in the air, screamed as loud as she could, danced an improvised jig, hugged a British official and went straight back into answering some anodyne question I'd just put to her.
Is there a clear line from the warm-hearted Lucy Beaumont, for example, through Rhod Gilbert, with his foam-flecked rages over seemingly anodyne topics such as mince pies and electric toothbrushes, to Spike Milligan, who was once described by his psychiatrist as "certifiably insane"?
Ms Wallstrom wrote a rather anodyne speech exhorting the member states to live up to their commitments on human rights, particularly women's rights.
