The sculptures that serve as props or sets are conceived in the same spirit of creative irrationality: Bock collages everyday household objects into dysfunctional machines or assemblages of whatchamacallits.
The corrupt and dysfunctional state machine has rallied behind Mr Sisi and claims to be restoring law and order and economic prosperity.
Conservative Downing Street aides say efforts have been made to rein in Dominic Cummings, who has launched a series of barbed analyses, sometimes with the apparent support of Gove, the education secretary, of what he describes as a dysfunctional Whitehall machine.
Mr. Morgan said, "Why should we give him an ego stroke when the needs of the district are bigger than the needs of this man's ego?" Another hopeful, Jonathan Tasini, a Texas native, is trying to use Mr. Rangel's deep support among Democratic leaders against him; Mr. Tasini says that he is running "a campaign for the people, and in opposition to the dysfunctional political machine".
It's like the world's most dysfunctional candy machine.
And like the county election officials in Florida, Democratic leaders routinely leave urban blacks at the mercy of old, dysfunctional political machines.
"What Lazio doesn't understand is that he represents the big organized parties; he's part of the machine that is dysfunctional," said Mr. O'Connell, 50, who lives in West Hampton Beach.
Inside these machines is a dysfunctional family of three separate kinds of memory chips DRAM, cache and flash thrown together out of weakness.
"My loneliness ain't killing me no more," she declared, and – as it would so many times over her career – freedom from dysfunctional emotion meant going deeper into the machine.
During a sabbatical at an information technology firm in 1999, Leiserson saw how a brief, intense workshop turned what he calls a dysfunctional group of engineers into a well-oiled machine.
