The other problematic state for Republicans is Wisconsin, where their candidate, the former Gov. Tommy Thompson, had once appeared to hold the advantage.
There was "cultural value", the pro-Lion camp insisted, in the building having once appeared in an episode of One Foot In The Grave.
He was leading Quartet West, a working band of more than 20 years, and playing a room where he had once appeared with Ornette Coleman.
Dr. McCabe's photograph, showing him helping to push free a police car that had become stuck in the mud while transporting a kidney into Manhattan, had once appeared in The Daily News in New York.
Mr. Dawson said Ms. Clark had once appeared on a television show with Nat King Cole on which he kissed her on the cheek, leading many stations in the South to cancel the show because she was white and Mr. Cole was black.
The latest incident began, really, last Friday, when a Twitter user identified Mr. Giggs as the man seeking to hide accusations of an extramarital affair with Imogen Thomas, a beauty pageant winner who had once appeared on "Big Brother".
One danger that appears to have been given little consideration in official disaster estimates is "soil liquefaction," whereby intense vibrations release underground water, instantly turning what had once appeared to be solid land into oozing, perilous mud.
Davis had performed with them since the age of 4 -- he never attended school, never knew any other life, never bonded with his mother, who had once appeared in a Mastin revue.
