The rest of the story is fast becoming the stuff of destructive computing legend.
Caravaggio's anarchistic tribute to the destructive power of desire – the stuff of civilisation lies defeated at Cupid's feet – is eternally worrying.
Having wrestled bears, real fucking bears, in the mountains of Dagestan since the age of four, his destructive grappling ability is the stuff of legend.
In the subsequent decade and a half, Heemeyer's destructive drive has become the stuff of legend, with a few even heralding the guy as a folk hero who took on city hall or something, regardless of the fact that he was, as AV Club points out, a crazed, domestic terrorist.
Destructive, erotically confused kids have been the stuff of compelling theatrical potboilers at least since Lillian Hellman wrote "The Children's Hour" eight decades ago.
The poems feel like products of a world that is on the one hand terribly destructive, and on the other has become so full with stuff, and stuff we can buy.
Lake's own two breezy bangers feel as expensive and destructive as a trip to Ibiza, where this sort of stuff has filled out late-night Jamie Jones sets for accounts managers on holiday since time immemorial.
Low barriers to entry for the business, along with naturally low repeat rates, creates a destructive formula for rapidly increasing acquisition costs as channels get stuffed (Google and Lending Tree stock charts illustrate this nicely).
She survived childhood abuse at the hands of her father -- people always want to talk about the sexual stuff," she says, "but to be honest, what was most destructive to me was the violence" -- then bottomed out after college.
Kirchner's troubles are the stuff of cliche: the artist as tragic and self-destructive hero, the artist as outsider, or as tortured genius.
