His technique was repetition, constantly assailing the public with ever more gruesome facts, recycling tales of graveyard degradations, seeking out new examples.
Into the mix are thrown the early-60s Auschwitz trials in West Germany, extended montages of fashion photography, and the fetishization of leading lady Macha Meril's body, which gradually becomes indistinguishable from the advertising that constantly assails her.
In an era when Fed chairmen are constantly assailed by ideologues of many stripes, one comes away from this book very impressed by Volcker's pragmatism: far from being the stalwart anti-inflationary crusader, keeping interest rates high at any cost in his quest to vanquish ever-rising consumer prices, he was always willing to break self-imposed rules.
So naturally Dan Snyder has spun up the victimization engines and tried to run them with the smooth purr of the Fox News machine – where honest, hard-working real American traditions are constantly assailed by incredibly powerful opportunistic race hustlers and PC police, like Native Americans.
So there weren't as many jets in the air as there are now, but helicopters, snipers, and other large munitions were still constantly assailing townspeople.
In a world where we're constantly assailed by advertisements that promise us wish fulfilment and, without fail, never deliver, Simon thinks psilocybin is one of the only real brands that can provide us true empowerment.
We're constantly assailed with the idea that the club is a space in which reality is momentarily suspended and that transcendence whatever that means in 2016 can be achieved by standing next to massive speakers and talking utter shit to strangers over a ratty and spit-sodden rollie in the smoking area.
At the other end Watson began with a series of biffs, crunching Anderson to the fence almost ruefully, as is often the way of this double-helping of a man, who seems assailed constantly by the burden of his own massiveness, as though feeling the need to apologise for the sheer scale of his great flexing biceps, his rippling earlobes, his scarcely credible shoulders.
Mrs. Clinton pointed to the fact that Republicans have been assailing her constantly as evidence that she was delivering a clear message.
