It is the equivalent of a restaurant "doing a Fawlty Towers" and ending proceedings at the height of its powers.
He did a few towers, none of which were great, and several institutional buildings, few of which equalled his best houses.
All Edgar and Alice have is each other, living alone, as they do, in a tower — a former prison — on an island outpost off the coast of Sweden, and isolated from the other inhabitants, whom Edgar calls "bottom-feeders".
A skyscraper filet mignon made a good showing, as did an equally towering pork chop accented with an apple-cherry compote.
But we Brits do not envy the French their diminutive president and his bickering mistresses or partners. And were glad we still have some redcoats to do a bit of towering.
During the show, David climbed a tower and did a handstand at the top.
Dee's art-world references are fun to sift through: a Damien Hirst-like tanked shark makes an appearance, as does a cast-resin water tower in SoHo, which sounds an awful lot like Rachel Whiteread's plastic version, which eventually wound up on the roof of MOMA.
There are better examples of how to do a plaza with big towers -- there's Rockefeller Center, with its internal streets and the skating rink.
Schubert, another Austrian song composer, did a lot better: his towering Quartet No. 15 in G Major crowns a program devoted completely to his music which also includes the winsome Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major and the obscure Adagio and Rondo Concertante for Piano Quartet (with Andreas Klein).
