In an earlier book, "The Secret of Scent," Turin cites Coca-Cola as a brilliant example of an abstract taste, one that resembles nothing in nature.
Mr. Rubin cited Grand Theft Auto 3, the runaway Christmas hit in which miscreant behavior like hiring prostitutes and carjacking innocent bystanders is encouraged, as an example of an increasing taste for more violent games.
What, after all, could be a better example of bad taste than a figure-skating routine performed by a man and a woman dressed as concentration camp inmates, complete with stripes and yellow stars?
It is actually an example of a cycle in taste that seems deeply written in art's history.
These examples are all classic American colonial examples of a Palladian taste that was transmitted through engravings, for the benefit of masons and patrons, too who had no first-hand experience of European building practice.
The "Warhol, Beuys, Johns" installation, for example, provides a taste of the focused displays devoted to individual postwar artists that the expansion will make possible and also shows how the museum is building its holdings in artists it considers historically significant.
The Daimler-Benz example is a taste of the confusion that may come with EDRs using one generic name but several accounting methods.
Several industry executives said CBS's action was a potentially worrisome example of the tastes of a large advertiser influencing a network's programming decisions.
They also said CBS's action was a potentially worrisome example of the tastes of a large advertiser influencing a network's programming decisions.
"To hang an open iron gate to a wooden doorframe is a gross violation," states the design guide, "and one which, when it occurs on the very threshold of a residence, gives but a poor example of the taste which may be expected within".
