At the same time, those crosses and lines, covering up, negating, chopping apart the imagery, imply currents of violence and self-effacement.
By chopping apart that convention, Mac, like Lee and Jacobs-Jenkins, isn't so much remaking the world in his own image as he is addressing subjects that remain, remarkably, underplayed on the American stage: what bodies mean and what stories women are allowed to tell or perform.
These articles were chopped apart......
Arriving in Blantyre, a city in southern Malawi, Hock experiences "the peculiar hum of scorched eucalyptus, the dustiness of dead leaves, the fields chopped apart by rusty mattocks to release the sharpness of bruised roots and red earth, all of it stinking with ripeness and decay".
About 30 miles south, at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, three of the largest pumpkins grown in the nation this year arrived in time to be chopped apart and used in a composition featuring a six-foot zombie pulling on a pumpkin vine to which other zombies and ghouls were attached.
They screened about 300,000 peptides and found one that selectively chopped apart D-ala-D-lac.
Pam refuses to exit the elevator while it is stuck, fearful of being chopped apart should the elevator move, referencing numerous incidents in the past 20 years where elevators stopped mid-floors have decapitated people who were in the door area.
You may find you have to chop apart some splintered wood grain around large knots to completely split the block.
For another group, the researchers simply added the compound to the animals' water, a strategy they considered unlikely to work, because the gut contains high amounts of proteases designed to chop proteins apart.
So in order to satisfy your last wishes, your next of kin has to make a career out of hustling the different parts of your body across the globe and convince what, like five different tradesmen to chop you apart and make specialized mounts, and then deal with the property owners of a bunch of companies you've spent your life ragging on ?
As the plane climbed to 13,700 feet the fuel tank explosion ripped it apart, chopping off the front of the plane as if with a guillotine.
