>> taste-makers
WTF is a taste maker? And why would I even want influence from one, let alone be paying his/her/its bill?
(I threw in “its” because I figure they’re mostly queer.)
I dunno, might want to ask that of Patrick Courrielche. Maybe he has a personal experience he would like to share with everyone?
It sounds very (self)-important, whatever it is.
“WTF is a taste maker? And why would I even want influence from one”
That would be anyone of the Obama administration officials or the Democrat/socialst party that leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth. BTW they don’t care what we want./sarc
The Tastemakers: The Shaping of American Popular Taste, by Russell Lynes. Dover Publications, 1980
His New York Times obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/16/arts/russell-lynes-80-an-editor-and-arbiter-of-taste.html
Essayist, social historian, photographer and Renaissance man, Mr. Lynes was an acclaimed expert on what was highbrow, what was lowbrow and what was no brow at all. One reviewer called him "the maestro of an unpretentious brand of social commentary which is civilized and stimulating.