His brain's a tape loop playing blue-chip pieties.
On the map, a hurricane is a tape loop, a massive whorl rotating north and then snapping back to an earlier location, over and over again.
I guess that's the moral: art is Gaye, but life is a tape loop of Michael Bolton songs, and it will finally wear you down.
Almost from the moment the public address system was hooked up, the refrain was repeated so often it seemed to be on a tape loop.
In "The Pedicord Apts.," you don't find out if Jean is coming over because, in room "E" and everywhere else down the hall, the sound is just a tape loop.
John Kongos's hit He's Going To Step On You Again (1971), for instance, was based around a tape loop of African tribal drums - it was recognised by the Guinness Book Of Records as the first sample used on record.
But she is haunted by a tape loop of questions about whether she, or her son's friends, or his commanders, could have done more to help him.
"The Republican Committee would get a chance to host an event in a legendary location with an A-list venue," Ms. Reidy says, in a litany she will repeat so often that one begins to suspect she has been implanted with a tape loop.
Where it all began, when Reich was playing around with a tape loop of a revivalist preacher shouting "It's gonna rain!", playing it back simultaneously on two machines, one running slightly faster than the other.
I got the sense that her time there is always playing on a tape loop in her mind, like the high-school championship game that didn't turn out quite the way everyone on the team dreamed it would.
