The results, while not always coherent, have a loopy, eclectic energy, perhaps best incarnated by the troupe of Punjabi hip-hop performers who show up now and then to drop chaos and tough-guy lyrics on the complicated proceedings.
There is also something timelessly true about the bride's father, a splendid Lloyd Hutchinson, telling ramblingly awful jokes, and the best friend, ripely incarnated by James Corden, reading out smutty poems.
The Socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who not long ago seemed to incarnate the best of the rational middle, celebrated the electoral season by being detained for engaging in orgies with prostitutes.
The real ignominy came later, with his failures in management and with the unwillingness of either West Ham or the FA to find some sort of symbolic role for a man who had once seemed to incarnate the best values of the English game.
Situated at the conjunction of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, the island incarnates some of the best of the Pacific Northwest.
Played by Amanda Seyfried, she is Jennifer's best friend, and if Ms. Fox brazenly incarnates teenage girl clichés, Ms. Seyfried slyly subverts them.
The best of these is Cinderella's Joan Crawford-esque stepmother (incarnated with hilarious outlandishness by Michela Meazza), but there are stepbrothers as well as two stepsisters (not ugly ones), potential boyfriends and girlfriends, a father in a wheelchair and servicemen.
The best of these is Cinderella's Joan Crawford-esque stepmother (incarnated with hilarious outlandishness by Michela Meazza), but there are also stepbrothers as well as two stepsisters (not ugly ones), potential boyfriends and girlfriends, a wheelchair-bound father and servicemen.
The photo magazines slavered and published fabulous shots (the best with Sachs as Mephistopheles, Bardot as nubility incarnate and Salvador Dalí as more or less himself at her birthday party).
His generation was the best educated and most privileged in Russian history, and incarnated a uniquely optimistic moment: the old world was on its way out; the question was merely what they would replace it with.
