“Never,†continues the supermodel, waving the little statuette expansively just beyond my reach, “has such pithy cruelty been achieved so quickly from such a position of safety,†she raves. I pause. The audience is beginning to look edgy. I reach for the statue, thinking to retrieve the situation with a short, magnanimous speech on the subject of the responsible use of wit.
The supermodel, however, can’t be stopped.
