"The boys affect a kind of uniform," claimed the Daily Graphic newspaper in a November 1900 article titled Real Hooligans.
His montage of flowers, swaying trees and human shadows seems to grow and change as you watch, and to affect a kind of sensory expansion.
Juilliard-trained, he would often affect a kind of stentorian thespian elegance, planting his feet apart and solidly on a stage, then shift into something out of Mel Blanc, then perhaps relax into what seemed to be his own, gentler voice.
They traffic in a calculating mélange of taciturn dreams, emptied of emotion, weirdly concrete, affecting a kind of earnest but slightly grating obscurity.
He affects a kind of easy bonhomie, but he is noticeably wary, vigilant, sizing up the participants in his every moment.
Like the uproar tweeters of today, he always acted innocent after causing trouble, affecting a kind of how-did-this-happen mode when he'd engineered it.
In the middle of all this, Ronson affected a kind of bemused detachment, patiently explaining that his background hadn't much helped his career ("Ghostface Killah isn't going to work with me because my mum's in Tatler and my stepdad was in Foreigner"), declining to say much about Winehouse and her troubles, and claiming he found all the attention "fucking weird".
Why this wistful "bachelor" affects a kind of Maine accent is just one of many inexplicable bits thrown in by writer-director — and renowned multimedia artist — Carter (just … Carter).
On "Creature Fear," he used a straightforward folk affect as a kind of misdirection; the band escalated into a frantic, extended post-rock delirium, and the voice disappeared.
It will affect a certain kind of psychopathic individual but it's a very minority sport, fortunately.
"We have a technology that can radically change outcomes, and the system to deliver it has broken down," said Elliot Vichinsky, director of the Northern California Thalassemia Center at Children's Hospital in Oakland, who says he regularly sees multiethnic parents with children affected by a kind of inherited anemia that can be fatal.
