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Even Washington's courtship of Martha is overly idealized, treated as love at first sight, though it must have been no negligible fact to an ambitious man whose taste ran to the finery on display that he was wooing perhaps the wealthiest widow in Virginia; he also might have, as some historians believe, actually fallen in love with a friend's wife.
At that time, the books pages were edited by Terry Kilmartin, a gifted, idiosyncratic man whose taste in literature was catholic and unconventional.
Curiously, in the same letter, there is also a strong element of candour where Charlotte actually owns to being "satirical" to the very man whose taste she's sending up.
Fass stayed up, listening to the stories spun by Jean Shepherd, the all-night talker who might deliver a play-by-play account of the Christians' battle against the lions or tell of the mysterious man whose taste buds were so finely developed that he could identify the year and model of refrigerator that produced a given ice cube.
In his 1956 New York Times review, A.H. Weiler was especially complimentary of Quinn: "Anthony Quinn is excellent as the growling, monosyllabic and apparently ruthless strong man, whose tastes are primitive and immediate.
Mr. Simpson was an Abstract Expressionist painter and arguably the most significant dealer of traditional African art in the United States, a man whose exquisite taste made him a pre-eminent expert in his field.
And yet, political mortality unsettles, perhaps particularly for a man whose visceral ambitions and taste for power were as pronounced as Mr. Giuliani's.
That was a tacky remark from a man whose business, supposedly, is good taste, but Mr. Lagerfeld wanted something jazzier and more up-to-the-minute than a straightforward retrospective of Coco Chanel.
