These thoughts sprang to mind over the weekend as Senator Lindsey Graham threatened to walk away from the climate legislation he had fashioned over many months with Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman.
Since he is only interested in structures as he fashions his big, over-arching narrative, Kneale never gets beyond superficially attractive catch-all explanations: that those who are attracted to religion are poor, needy, fearful, or women.
Among Treasury's senior staff, he has the unique advantage of sharing a close, Batman-and-Robin-like relationship with Paulson, fashioned over nearly 30 years together at Goldman Sachs.
He then took over fashion start-up Zappos in 1999 because he missed working in a happy environment.
Burberry's Christopher Bailey will soon be able to claim the title of busiest man in fashion when he takes over as chief executive from Angela Ahrendts, who is moving to a role at Apple.
"The days of the designer in his ivory tower inventing a 'look' that he dictates is fashion" are over, Mr. Jacobs said.
The earthquake destroyed the road to his small hamlet, so he has walked, tightrope-fashion, over the roof beams of collapsed houses, and skirted the freshly sheared faces of mountainsides that have rained enormous boulders on the valleys below for a couple of hours.
But, in lively, cheeky fashion, he knocks over any number of sacred cows, the better to highlight the ideological contours of the landscape on which they are grazing.
He didn't allow pictures, he explained, because fashion had become over-exposed as a result of the internet and a preoccupation with celebrities.
He accused her of preferring French and American fashion over Italian.
