It would have been wonderfully apposite for today's Chelsea-centered art world.
It had a shiny handwheel — one that required two hands to turn — and such an enduring sense of design that it would have been wholly apposite in an underwater vehicle devised by Jules Verne.
It is a truism bordering on a tautology to note that first-person novels are all about voice, but seldom can that observation have been more apposite than in the case of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
The former lead singer with the Go-Go's, the Californian all-girl band that wasn't the Bangles, Carlisle injected some conviction into compositions whose religious references – "Forever, amen," in "We Want The Same Thing" and the inevitable set closer "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" – couldn't have been more apposite given the location.
Pop would have been a more apposite reference, because Tod's pebble-soled Gommino, a basic driving shoe based on the moccasin, is the footwear equivalent of an Andy Warhol.
Perhaps its working title, "Kaddish", the Jewish prayer read by mourners at funerals, would have been a more apposite choice for the title and description of its narrative.The film describes the attempt made by two brothers, Jozek Maciejj Stuhr and Franciszekk, to break the conspiracy of silence among the residents of the village where the massacre against their Jewish neighbours had taken place.
Napolitans involved with the mafia refer to it as "the system", which has obvious parallels with "the game", the name for the drug economy that might have been a more apposite title for David Simon's programme than The Wire. "Every arrest and maxi-trial seems more like a way of replacing cops and breaking business cycles than something capable of destroying a system," Saviano writes.
Yodelling, however apposite that would have been in the Alps, it was not.
As a template of how to play the game it could not have been more fitting, and the timing more apposite, since the audience was made up of licensed football coaches from grass-roots clubs up and down the land.
