If the first Gulf war has come to be remembered in the iconic image of a laser-guided bomb going deep down into a hole, the video of a uniformed American doctor's tongue depressor bunker-busting Mr. Hussein's private places may prove equally memorable.
His life was so complex, his achievements so multifarious, his personality so unfathomable, the myths so pervasive, that I was sure that if I was to understand him I would have to cast my net very wide, at the same time as going deep down under the surface; one volume, I knew, could never do him justice.
As Virginia, the matriarch of a rough-and-tumble family of lunatics who seem to subsist on flat Coke and last month's Taco Bell, she goes deep down under the rafters.
"I wanna go deep down to where my soul has gone", he laments on The Spell, while the sad, swelling ballad I Got Lost was written as a response to learning that collaborator Dave Rosser had been diagnosed with cancer.
"The reason for that is because if you analyze and go deep down into my background, you may very well find that it has to do with my good math skills".
"The ship is leaning on the right-hand side, on a rocky bottom and next to an escarpment that goes deep down to 50 to 90 meters," he said, and there was a "real risk that that coming sea storms could cause the ship to sink further".
The son of a preacher, he drew on his religious upbringing for uplifting messages: "I like to think of advertising as something big, something splendid, something which goes deep down into an institution and gets hold of the soul of it.... Institutions have souls, just as men and nations have souls," he told GM president Pierre du Pont.
Along the coast, scuba buffs go deep down into the greatest dive sights around.
I could go deep down into the weeds on this, but it's not really necessary.
One of the partners Disney has gone deep down into the bag of tricks with is Google.
It is injected into a pipe that goes deep down into the earth at phenomenally high pressure - 8,000lb per square inch, if you're asking - to crack open the rocks, permitting access to the oil that has hitherto been unreachable.
