"His tastes trend more towards Wilco and the Killers," said Jim Manley, Mr. Reid's spokesman.
The New Urbanist creed has been embraced by milliions of millenials, whose tastes trend away from cul-de-sacs and toward pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented neighborhoods in proximity to lively commercial districts.
Her time studying and living in Cambridge, London, New Haven and Los Angeles enabled her to develop a unique sense of style and taste for trends, culture and current events.
("The mai tai, yeah, all of that," Walrod says. "But he also invented the margarita! And convinced everyone it was what Mexicans drank!") In Jersey City parlance, Jim Walrod might be "the guy behind the guy," someone whose synthetic knowledge and sensibility exert a widespread, distinct and yet invisible influence on people whose design and style choices directly affect popular taste and trends.
She was just being forced into that taste by trends that would pass, just as this rough spot in the marriage would pass.
Men also shave their facial hair according to personal taste and trends, and increasingly tidy up and wax their pubic hair, too.
What retailers such as Swedish giant H&M have done is to divide their customers by taste and trends to better mop up the majority.
"It is, absolutely," said Mr. Murray of Snowcrash, who is gunning for contracts with Apple and its universal iMac audience, not the traditional design cognoscenti whose taste and trends are established by Italian showrooms like Cappellini.
And yet, and yet... there is a sense in which, taken together, the nominations, over their 27-year history, provide a crude kind of barometer to taste and trends in British art.
The tensions between those two milieus are important in Argentine thought, for, although most Argentines are urban and look to porteños, or residents of Buenos Aires, as arbiters of taste and trends, the interior has given to all Argentines their symbol of national identity, the gaucho, who occupies a position in South American lore similar to that of the cowboy in the United States.
