Now that I'm back in Manhattan, where the meaning of preppy is as superficial as the trends fashion editors send into the air like golf balls at a driving range, I'm missing the Gasparilla Inn.
To the Editor: I have been somewhat disappointed at the superficial level of the mammography debate.
Frank Schirrmacher, publisher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany There is a superficial appeal in the argument that intelligence "professionals" know better than editors what information must be suppressed, even if it has already escaped their control.
'As a beauty editor you know that there's a percentage of people who think the whole thing's very superficial, very commercial, very empty-headed,' says Phillips, who is also a qualified yoga teacher.
To the Editor: I found Daisann McLane's article on Berlin, "Peeling the Layers of History in Berlin" (Feb. 4), superficial.
Yet the openly libidinous comedian – who, in a statement about The Revolution Issue said his "first act" as editor would be to rename the magazine The Nude Statesman, seems increasingly keen to distance himself from the fickle, superficial fashion world.
"Fashion is superficial, momentary.
"It was pretty superficial".
"Everything seemed superficial.
