There are 191 crossbenchers, many of whom are former civil servants, judges and senior military types.
She noted that at the museum's annual gala, the Brooklyn Ball, in April, guests ran "the gamut from senior statesmen types to the freshly tattooed".
Your blogger, at a more modest level, asked senior Treasury types about it in the run-up to this week's budget.
There also seems to be little appetite among senior BBC types for involving Nick Pollard in a news executive role, despite his stellar work in producing the cogent report on the Newsnight/Savile debacle.
Senior Telegraph types were out on the BBC earlier today saying that readers had anecdotally reported hearing coalition figures saying darker things in private than their sunny public utterances.
"It seems that the situation is slowly improving, but from what many tell us via our direct message button there are many CEOs and senior management types that still don't get it - and assume that the number of Likes and followers means everything.
Mobile payments startup Clinkle continues to add senior management types to its executive ranks.
If revelations in the Guardian are anything to go by, then how it works is this: every week, Obama himself and a series of senior Pentagon types get together for a meeting only semi-ironically dubbed "Terror Tuesday".
Whether we agree with the vigilante activity or not, the hackers have sent a lot of senior level-types back to double-check what level of security their business provides customers.
Wearing a pleated skirt and black V-neck sweater for an interview, Ms. Liu, a petite-framed 5 foot 2, appeared less like a karate queen than like a self-assured high school senior, the type who effortlessly juggled cheerleading and debate team.
