By the midway point, however, the story has devolved into a long night of hide and seek that allows claustrophobia and confusion to usurp a canny exploration of the bonds of brotherhood.
"It gave us a speaking point, a focus, the idea that 'man devolved from a long line of brain-eating apes' thumbed its nose at both religion and science, and questioned man as the center of the universe.
The rebels were an ill-disciplined sight, sometimes firing long bursts of machine-gun fire high in the air, and at one point devolving into a long rebel-on-rebel shoving-and-shouting match.
That tie foundered two days short of the sixth anniversary of their association, and soon devolved into a long-simmering legal mess that might become a business-school prototype for the restaurant partnership that goes pear-shaped.
Had the show devolved into a long-running, formulaic comedy about a wacky bunch of rich idiots, I might be singing a different tune.
This short-term "fix" frequently devolves into a long-term toxin, due to the chilling effect that high income taxes have on state economies.
Like much of Greenwich Village and the Left Bank, Kings Road has long since devolved into a miles-long cultural dead zone: homogenous clothing and home furnishings stores wrestling for position with cafés featuring wrap sandwiches.
Devolving a measure of power to such newly created states may prove a good idea only so long as it is not seen as another stitch-up by the old guard in Mogadishu.
The firing put an end to what rapidly devolved into a season-long public humiliation of Zorn, and it cleared the way for another rebuilding in Daniel Snyder's decade of ownership.
The complaint would ring strikingly familiar to many in the area today, who say the plaza, designed as a portal and a promenade, long ago devolved into a traffic circle with more lanes than the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — depending on what point you're crossing from — and a center as daunting to reach as an island in a storm.
