But the spate of them in recent weeks risks once more creating the impression in the public mind of a pattern of moral aberrance in the Conservative Party.
He earned renown for his first two short-story collections, First Love, Last Rites (1975; film 1997)—winner of a Somerset Maugham Award for writers under age 35 and In Between the Sheets (1978), both of which feature a bizarre cast of grotesques in disturbing tales of sexual aberrance, black comedy, and macabre obsession.
It was if this "shameful" aberrance was rendering them undesirable.
Pseudoscientists, like Louis Agassiz, the Swiss-born and Harvard-trained zoologist, adapted the medium to further notions of black aberrance and inferiority.
They saw the ultimate in sexual aberrance, a handsome gigolo in thrall to a geriatric siren who, in photographs, now began to resemble the stubbornly defiant Big Chief Sitting Bull.
The ghosts of Foucault and RD Laing attend Kubrick's vision of the state's economy of violence: how criminal aberrance is countered with clinical, scientific subjection.
That's what makes the aberrance of a Dieudonné all the more extraordinary and why, rather than being banned or prosecuted, that attitude needs to be aired out.
"Fiendishness" is comforting because it ascribes everything to aberrance and takes the politics out of the discussion.
On Tuesday the channel will begin showing a prurient true-crime series, "Women Behind Bars," that is the most recent manifestation of the obsession women's television has with female aberrance: incessant portrayals of fat brides, crazy brides, hoarders, obsessive-compulsives, cheaters, gold diggers and black widows.
But aberrance is the last label I would slap on Diller & Scofidio, even in ironic jest.
