Human appetite is complicated, driven by signals from the brain, gut, fat cells, glands, genes and psyche.
"Philagrafika" includes etchings and woodcuts, vinyl graphics, comic books, videos and complicated, conceptually driven projects intended to raise social consciousness.
Specifically, longer life expectancies for the rich complicate the drive to raise the retirement age and threaten to turn Social Security taxes into a regressive source of revenue.
Complicating the drive toward agreeing on a number is the fact that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has already agreed on his own to back away from $90 million of his proposed $600 million in cuts.
His problems could complicate his drives for the nomination and for a role in shaping the direction of the Democratic Party.
Because today, the stakes are too high for bickering, and the world is too complicated to be driven by ideology.
This sort of mythmaking is more common in baseball than in other sports, and at its worst it can be a drag and a distraction a way to turn driven, complicated people into statuettes.
Why are driving standards so bad, when the driving test is so complicated and learning to drive, at a minimum of around $700, so expensive?
Complicated problems cause even more complicated results.
Mr. Gosling's cool self-possession — the only thing he was allowed to display in "Drive" — is complicated, made interesting, by hints of childlike innocence and vulnerability.
