In a less flashy vein, she wrote a moving Mother's Day essay for Southern Living last month.
In less paranoid vein, facial databases are also being developed by marketeers to build communities of customers based on appearance-affinities.
Similarly, x-rays, radiation and pulsars – and in a less exotic vein, Velcro, Vaseline and Teflon – all owe their discovery or existence to serendipity.
On the other hand, those of us who write in a less personal vein get a lot more mail from people correcting our factual errors.
Age would seem to have brought a new detachment and gentleness to the famously feisty Mr. Laurents, now 91, who last year triumphantly reconceived (in a less forgiving vein) "Gypsy," another show for which he did the book.
In similar but less sophisticated vein is James Fritz's Ross & Rachel (much darker than anything in Friends) and the wild card would be Lemons, Lemons, Lemons – fresh and exciting work from new company Walrus at Zoo Southside.
In less repellent vein, it tells heavily against him that he feels "lowered" and revolted on reading the ecstatically funny Lucky Jim, a novel which in his view would be enough to "cure one of a desire to be a socialist".
Although gumbos and étouffées define much of the cooking in southern Louisiana, Mosca's is a stalwart of another, though less celebrated, vein of the New Orleans culinary canon that came from transplanted southern Italian immigrants.
In a rather less exalted vein, I also love the odds and sods that turn up on the tip of your tongue or the back of your mind at inopportune moments (greeting periods with "The curse has come upon me!" is a particular favourite).
Surely Mrs. Clinton would be the first to appreciate that even local politicos, those entrusted with solving mundane suburban conundrums like commuter parking and, in a less mundane vein, placating irate Old House Lane incumbents who don't like sharing their stubby cul-de-sac with Secret Service S.U.V.'s, media trespassers and the occasional tourist bus, tend to be too busy to cook.
