They present a little dangling thread, then spend the next 20-30 minutuggingging on it until your understanding of that thing unravels and reforms.
Later, at the museum, Luca Adams, 6, eagerly approached a dangling yarn creature he'd helped make.
Narrative closure was never on the cards for Twin Peaks (seriously, who expected a normal ending, FROM DAVID LYNCH?), but in China Girl, Campion pays off its enduring pathos with a sendoff that ties up all dangling threads.
Her exit did leave her as a tantalising, Merle-esque dangling thread – one I hope is yanked very soon.
If somehow there was one dangling thread that could unravel the dysfunction of New York's Legislature, it would be attached to the unfair system that allows state lawmakers to draw their own election districts every 10 years.
(Smith) ★ Natasza Niedziolka: 'White Shadow' (closes on Saturday) In a New York solo debut that is just cause for optimism, this Polish-born, Berlin-based pictorial artist mixes together art and craft, folk traditions and early Modernism to devise spare, colorful still lifes that sometimes involve paint but more often make extensive use of knitting, embroidery, sewing machines and dangling thread.
But the director's cut did not materialize and Whedon moved on, leaving dangling threads and a general feeling of bloat.
"There were dangling threads of plot, there was a lack of unity — a beginning, a middle, an end that was inherent in the beginning," Hohoff would later say about the pages that the wisp of a woman from Alabama brought to her office at Fifth Avenue and Forty-third Street.
For all its gaping crevices and dangling threads, "3 Needles" sustains a mood of sorrowful gravity, bolstered by some powerful performances, especially Ms. Channing's blowzy waitress and Ms. Sevigny's luminous novice.
