Momentous, buoyant, debonaire, graceful.
They didn't meet in a deli but there was one down the block in NYC.
“One person fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known,” he said.
But he was talking of Edie Sedgwick.
He never actually met MM but he was all about image - and that made her visage irresistible.
He liked soup, too, of course.