No, she says, she's not at all interested in the lives of people who make music she likes (an eclectic list that takes in Cyndi Lauper, Twisted Sister, Kiss and the soundtrack to Miami Vice – or at least, as she underlines with the certainty of the committed fan, the soundtrack to the first series of Miami Vice, "when there was a lot of very nice electronic music and not so much dialogue").
In the decade since Ruth Reichl took over as editor, she underlined everything from the exploitation of tomato pickers in Florida to dishes like chicken and dumplings that could be on the stove, simmering, in 15 minutes.
"Dance is my spiritual release... my spiritual happiness," said one woman, and her face as she moved underlined her words.
But as Maria writes in her book Full of Flavour: Create... How to Think Like a Chef, and as she's underlining to me now, the vital thing is mindset.
She underlined her status as a Sochi 2014 medal prospect by winning World Cup silver in August.
She carried her Bible almost everywhere, marking in it and underlining as she read.
Hope is in short supply, however, for survivors of the earthquake, a reality that 70-year-old Mayli Giri underlined as she emerged from the tin shack that has been her home through the hot summer.
But the rapturous reception from the home crowd as she celebrated those medals underlined the high esteem in which she is held by the sporting public, and her insistence that the London medals mean just as much to her is genuinely felt.
Her sympathies are often for women's lives and feelings, as in her heartfelt notes about the cruelty done to Catherine Sloper in Washington Square ("No one sees her as she really is"), or her underlining, in her collected Shakespeare, of these lines in Two Gentlemen of Verona: "Of many good I think him best..
Check for other comparisons that don't use "like" or "as," and underline them also.
But the busy staging, by Deborah Warner, undercut as well as underlined the play's insights and moments of revelation.
