It's now the incessant party line.
With an incessant, progressive line of maracas, flamboyant percussion, and infectious guitar riffs, "Amazonas" sounds like a sort of South-American science-fiction for the early morning club set.
To judge from endemic protests at even slightly outré productions, and incessant on-line and in-lobby grousings, too many Americans are convinced that opera should be just a sensuous bath in vocal timbre and the emotional urgency a great voice and great phrasing can convey; for them, theatrical meaning or vibrancy, let alone modern-day reinterpretation, is an alien intrusion.
Like one of Rachel Cusk's cool-voiced narrators, Alice withholds most of her thoughts, only feinting at "the incessant kaleidoscope within" through lines of wry or tender dialogue, or else with riotous descriptions that erupt as if by accident: "Light shimmered in the trees, whose leaves, when the wind ran through them, sighed like the gods after a long and boozy lunch".
There are half-hearted attempts at abortion, purgatives, blood-spattered cobbles, incessant coughing fits and the line, "All I know is Mrs Greg took his hand away in a bucket".
The incessant drawing of an effective line to separate Muslims from non-Muslims has over the last 40 years also precipitated the painful erasure of healthy distinctions among the Muslims themselves.
Beyond such bits and pieces, there is the art, whose glory was maintained and renewed in many phases until the artist's death, in 1954: preternatural color, yielding line, boldness and subtlety, incessant surprise.
For almost a century, beginning around 1825, the Hudson Valley was the nation's first industrial heartland, an incessant bustle of shipbuilding, ironworks, railroad lines, shipping docks, cement, stone, iron, lumber, weaponry and even whaling industries.
Around 300,000 people lined the route under incessant rain and cold.
All three tread a very fine line between cultural democratisation and incessant banality.
