The New York Times’ Ginia Bellafante on Melrose Place:
“If it wasn’t for me,” Sydney Andrews tells the young protégé she has schooled in her lunatic brand of venality, “you’d still be wearing Juicy sweatsuits, French tips and a bad dye job.”
Who knew the word “venal” could be put to such good use?
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