"The boys affect a kind of uniform," claimed the Daily Graphic newspaper in a November 1900 article titled Real Hooligans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
"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.
Showcases and Boiler Rooms, live sets and club nights have all been affected by a kind of flatness.
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.
