But her prose is mercifully homespun, even colloquial; she likes ordinary language and uses italics and exclamation marks as often as an excited teenager on Facebook.
Yet a decade ago the image was one of financial battles, family feuds and murder, a combination mercifully rare even in the emotional world of high fashion.The Gucci story begins in 1921, when Guccio Gucci opened a small leather-goods shop and saddlery in Florence.
Mercifully, the evening isn't an extended music video.
Finally, perhaps even mercifully, this rusted hulk of a team was towed away from the World Cup on Thursday, its battery dead, tires flat, windows smashed after a 3-2 loss to Slovakia, which is playing in its first World Cup.
The show's pacing was brisk, with no between-songs filler except for the occasional banal bellow of "We love you, California". (At the same time, Meine mercifully eschewed the even more banal cussing-to-show-attitude that you hear from most hard rockers).
Even more mercifully, it was being rebuilt, so only the finest of its 15,000 artefacts were on show.
(Kopelman and Moskop, 1989) The pioneering work of Myra Bluebond-Langner shows how young children can come to terms with their own imminent death and even conspire, mercifully, to help their parents and caregivers avoid having to discuss this awful truth with them (Bluebond-Langner, 1980).
Mercifully, they don't even know which estimate they fit into.
BASEBALL'S version of March madness finally ended last night, pleasantly for the Yankees even in defeat, mercifully for the Mets even in victory.
Mercifully, the Uniform Bulk Program doesn't even bother with public health metaphors.
