Marbled

Today while I was purposely avoiding my latest assignment on girls gone geek, I was reading this clever little article in the New Yorker about Katie Couric. I'm an old fan of Katie's. We go way back to the days when Matt first joined the crew at "The Today Show" and of course, I was in love with him until he married a swimsuit model and buzzed his hair. But whatever.

So I was reading this little article and stumbled across a new word: marmoreal. [mahr-mawr-ee-uhl] –adjective -- of or like marble: skin of marmoreal smoothness.

What the hell? Who comes up with this stuff?

This fun little adjective was used in conjunction with the David Brinkley and Dan Rather.

Bob Schieffer, with his bobblehead-doll proportions and reservoir of tempered consternation—“How in the world could something like this happen?”—was an unexpected success as CBS’s interim replacement for Dan Rather, because he resembled the big-headed titans of yore, the David Brink-leys and John Chancellors and Eric Sevareids, whose marmoreal sternness was leavened only by the occasional half smile at an offbeat story—Tiny Tim and his ukulele, say.

Wow, if I were Dan, I'd be pissed to seem so impassive and unresponsive as to be likened to marble. But then again, Dan Rather.. marble ... Dan Rather ... Ok, yeah, I'm there.