"Luckily, we've been able to get the kryptonite from around our necks each time so far".
"My Lai Massacre" (1969) reproduces a famous photograph from the Vietnam War, enlarging it each time so that the pile of bodies becomes a close-up of a foot and finally an abstract pattern of dots.
Ms. Turner was disappointed each time, so she instructed the rehab center staff not to call her until everything was finalized, and the only step remaining was to put Ms. Land in the ambulance for the ride home.
That one, which I kept, had made three passes at the Blue Charm, missing it each time, so I switched to a dry, a Gray Wulff, and he was mine.
But a couple of racial slurs have been used in Britain recently by famous people, and though public condemnation followed each time, so did condemnation of the condemnation; the gist being that no offense had been meant, so no offense should have been taken.
It repeats its "shocking" revelation about Joss's gender over and over, to calibrate a shimmering response from the repeating unbindings (as if unbinding the question of gender each time) so that we judge human nature not by the shock of the revelation of Joss's gender but by people's responses to it.
St Apollonia raises the heavy pliers that became her attribute – she was tortured by having her teeth pulled out one by one – to her lovely face, gradually chipping away at the plaster each time, so that one is made to think of the brittle frangibility of teeth.
An interesting quirk of the methodology is that the previous image sticks around, rather than being reset each time, so that an image clearly incorporating spider-monkey features slowly morphs into one that looks more like a nightmarish collection of technicolour cellos: lines get straightened out, strings get added in, and eyes become ƒ-holes.
The form they are closest to is musical variations – one wants to call them efforts – where images, scenes, or characters are called up in different forms each time, so that if a whole emerges it is out of patterns of highly idiosyncratic association and allusion.
The two politically oriented comedy shows hosted by the two stars -- "The Daily Show" with Mr. Stewart and "The Colbert Report" with Mr. Colbert -- have both seen big ratings bumps in presidential election years, Mr. Herzog said, "and some of that carries over each time, so we keep going up".
