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时尚女魔头 穿普拉达的恶魔 英文原版-第49部分

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  agree with me。 “It’s not you; it’s her。 She’s an empty; shallow; 
  bitter woman who has tons and tons of gorgeous clothes and not much 
  else。”

  Emily’s face tightened noticeably; the skin on her neck and around 
  her cheeks pulling taut; and her hands stopped shaking。 I knew she 
  was going to bulldoze me at any moment; but I couldn’t stop。

  “Have you ever noticed that she has no friends; Emily? Have you? 
  Sure; her phone rings day and night with the world’s coolest people; 
  but they’re not calling to talk about their kids or their jobs or 
  their marriages; are they? They’re calling because they need 
  something from her。 It sure seems awesome looking in; but can you 
  imagine if the only reason anyone ever called you was because they—”

  “Stop it!” she screamed; the tears streaming down her face again。 
  “Just fucking shut up already! You march into this office and think 
  you understand everything。 Little Miss I’m So Sarcastic and So Above 
  All This! Well; you don’t understand anything。 Anything!”

  “Em—”

  “Don’t ‘Em;’ me; Andy。 Let me finish。 I know Miranda is difficult。 I 
  know she sometimes seems crazy。 I know what it’s like to never sleep 
  and always be scared she’s calling you and have none of your friends 
  understand。 I know all that! But if you hate it so much; if you 
  can’t do anything but plain about it and her and everyone else 
  all the time; then why don’t you just leave? Because your attitude 
  is really a problem。 And to say that Miranda is a lunatic; well; I 
  think there are many; many more people out there who think she’s 
  gifted and gorgeous and talented and would think you’re a lunatic 
  for not doing your best to help out someone so amazing。 Because she 
  is amazing; Andy—she really is!”

  I considered this for a moment and decided she had a point。 Miranda 
  was; as far as I could tell; a truly fantastic editor。 Not a single 
  word of copy made it into the magazine without her explicit; 
  hard…to…obtain approval; and she wasn’t afraid to scrap something 
  and start over; regardless of how inconvenient or unhappy it made 
  everyone else。 Although the various fashion editors called in the 
  clothes to shoot; Miranda alone selected the looks she wanted and 
  which models she wanted wearing each one; the sittings editors might 
  be the ones at the actual shoots; but they were simply executing 
  Miranda’s specific and incredibly detailed instructions。 She had the 
  final—and often even the preliminary—say over every single bracelet; 
  bag; shoe; outfit; hair style; story; interview; writer; photo; 
  model; location; and photograph in every issue; and that made her; 
  in my mind; the main reason for the magazine’s stunning success each 
  month。Runway wouldn’t beRunway —hell; it wouldn’t be much of 
  anything at all—without Miranda Priestly。 I knew it and so did 
  everyone else。 What it hadn’t yet done was convince me that any of 
  this gave her a right to treat people the way she did。 Why was the 
  ability to put together a Balmain evening gown and a brooding; leggy 
  Asian girl on a side street in San Sebastian worshiped so much that 
  Miranda wasn’t accountable for her behavior? I still wasn’t building 
  the bridge; but what the hell did I know? Emily obviously got it。

  “Emily; all I’m saying is that you’re a really great assistant to 
  her; that she’s lucky she has someone who works as hard as you do; 
  who’s so mitted to the job。 I just wish you’d realize that it’s 
  not your fault if she’s unhappy with something。 She’s just an 
  unhappy person。 There’s nothing more you could have done。”

  “I know that。 I really do。 But you don’t give her enough credit; 
  Andy。 Think about it。 I mean; really think about it。 She is so 
  incredibly acplished; and she’s had to sacrifice a lot to get 
  there; but couldn’t the same be said of supersuccessful people in 
  every industry? Tell me; how many CEOs or managing partners or movie 
  directors or whatever don’t have to be tough sometimes? It’s part of 
  the job。”

  I could tell we weren’t going to see eye to eye on this one。 It was 
  clear that Emily was deeply invested in Miranda; inRunway; in all of 
  it; but I just couldn’t understand why。 She wasn’t any different 
  from the hundreds of other personal assistants and editorial 
  assistants and assistant editors and associate editors and senior 
  editors and editors in chief of fashion magazines。 But I just didn’t 
  understand why。 From everything I’d seen so far; each one was 
  humiliated; degraded; and generally abused by their direct superior; 
  only to turn around and do it to those under them the second they 
  got promoted。 And all of it so they could say; at the end of the 
  long and exhausting climb; that they’d gotten to sit in the front 
  row at Yves Saint…Laurent’s couture show and had scored a few free 
  Prada bags along the way?

  Time to just agree。 “I know;” I sighed; surrendering to her 
  insistence。 “I just hope you know that you’re doing her the favor by 
  putting up with her shit; not the other way around。”

  I expected a quick counter…attack; but Emily grinned。 “You know how 
  I just told her like a hundred times that her Thursday hair and 
  makeup were confirmed?”

  I nodded。 She looked positively giddy。

  “I was totally lying。 I didn’t call a single person or confirm 
  anything!” She practically sang the last part。

  “Emily! Are you serious? What are you going to do now? You just 
  swore up and down that you’d personally confirmed it。” For the first 
  time since starting work; I wanted to hug the girl。

  “Andy; be serious。 Do you honestly think that any sane person is 
  going to say no to doing her hair and makeup? It could make his 
  whole career—he’d be crazy to turn her down。 I’m sure the guy was 
  planning to do it all along。 He was probably just rearranging his 
  travel plans or something。 I don’t have to confirm with him; because 
  I’m that sure he’ll do it。 How could henot ? She’s Miranda 
  Priestly!”

  Now I thought I would cry; but instead I just said; “So what do I 
  need to know to hire this new nanny? I should probably get started 
  right away。”

  “Yeah;” she agreed; still looking delighted with her own cleverness。 
  “That’s probably a good idea。”

  The first girl I interviewed for the nanny position looked 
  positively shell…shocked。

  “Oh my god!” she’d howled when I asked her over the phone if she’d 
  mind ing to the office to meet with me。 “Oh my god! Are you 
  serious? Oh my god!”

  “Um; is that a yes or a no?”

  “God; yes。 Yes; yes; yes! ToRunway ? Oh my god。 Wait until I tell my 
  friends。 They’ll die。 They’ll absolutely die。 Just tell me where to 
  be and when。”

  “You understand that Miranda’s away right now; so you won’t be 
  meeting with her; right?”

  “Yep。 Totally。”

  “And you also know that the job is being a nanny to Miranda’s two 
  daughters; right? That it won’t have anything to do withRunway ?”

  She sighed as if to resign herself to the sad; unfortunate fact。 
  “Yes; of course。 A nanny; I totally get it。”

  Well; she hadn’t really gotten it; because even though she looked 
  the part (tall; impeccably groomed; reasonably well dressed; and 
  seriously underfed); she kept asking which parts of the job would 
  require her to be at the office。

  I shot her a specialty Withering; but she didn’t seem to notice。 
  “Um; none。 Remember; we talked about this? I’m just doing some 
  initial screening for Miranda; and we just happen to be doing it in 
  the office。 But that’s it。 Her twins don’t live here; you know?”

  “Right; right;” she’d agreed; but I’d already nixed her。

  The next three the agency had waiting in the reception area weren’t 
  much better。 Physically; all fit the Miranda profile—the agency 
  really did know exactly what she wanted—but not one had what I’d be 
  looking for in a nanny who’d be taking care of my future niece or 
  nephew; the standard I’d set for the process。 One had a master’s in 
  child development from Cornell but glazed over when I tried to 
  describe the subtle ways this job might be different from others 
  she’d held。 Another had dated a famous NBA player; which she felt 
  gave her “insight into celebrity。” But when I’d asked her if she’d 
  ever worked with the children of celebrities; she’d instinctively 
  wrinkled her nose and informed me that “famous people’s kids always 
  have; like; major issues。” Nixed。 The third and most promising had 
  grown up in Manhattan and had just graduated from Middlebury and 
  wanted to spend a year as a nanny to save some money for a trip to 
  Paris。 When I asked if that meant she spoke French; she nodded。 The 
  only problem was that she was a city girl through and through and 
  therefore didn’t have a driver’s license。 Was she willing to learn? 
  I’d asked。 No; she’d answered。 She didn’t believe that the streets 
  needed another car clogging them。 Nix number three。 I spent the rest 
  of the day trying to figure out a tactful way of telling Miranda 
  that if a girl is attractive; athletic; fortable with celebrity; 
  lives in Manhattan; has a driver’s license; can swim; has an 
  advanced degree; speaks French; and is pletely and entirely 
  flexible with her time; then chances are she does not want to be a 
  nanny。

  She must have read my mind; because the phone rang immediately。 I 
  did a few calculations and realized that Miranda would have just 
  landed at de Gaulle; and a quick glance at the second…by…second 
  itinerary Emily had so painstakingly constructed showed she would 
  now be in the car on her way to the Ritz。

  “
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