"I hope he's a better doctor than he is a lawyer," said Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of law at Harvard and one of the nation's best-known constitutional experts.

"Even a temporary restraining order is extraordinary in our history," said Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of law at Harvard and one of the nation's best-known constitutional experts.

The advance word was that the concept came from John Cage, who heard Joseph Campbell, academe's best-known expert on myth, speculate that James Joyce would have called his unwritten last work "Ocean."

The best-known expert in American culinary history at the time was the cookbook writer and journalist Sheila Hibben (who not long afterward became The New Yorker's first food critic).

Britain's best-known expert on gender reassignment, he was a member of the parliamentary forum on transsexualism.

This is known as "Ferberizing" a child, after Richard Ferber, America's best-known expert on infant sleep.

Perhaps Axelrod is not, as some of his self-published books claim, "the best-known tropical-fish expert in the world."

The best-known expert, Max Mayfield, is the avuncular head of the National Hurricane Center and appears often on news segments as the calm before any storm.

But the auto industry's best-known expert on purchasing, Thomas T. Stallkamp, tends to agree with Mr. Yaron.

Ms. Stewart may well be, following the death of my grandmother and the decline of the wringer washer, the nation's best-known expert on laundry.