(The adult Godzilla is represented only by spokesmen and much screaming).
Poor King Arthur is represented only by a golden crown that sits atop props and platforms.
Claude LévisStrepresentedpresented only by a pamphlet-sized collection of lectures.
Eliot's "Four Quartets" is represented only by "Burnt Norton"; Pound's "Cantos" are given a well-chosen 30 pages.
You become irritated that your favorite song is represented only by a demo or a live recording or an alternate mix that omits the horns.
Guy Debord, a brilliant aphorist who coined the phrase "society of the spectacle," is represented only by a late and dubious quotation about quotations.
A year on, James's erotica is a mere spectral presence, and the nine-month‑wonder of 2012's porn craze is represented only by her boldest imitator, Sylvia Day (12, 76).
N.W.A., the Southern California group that put gangsta rap into million-selling circulation, also gets some wall space, though one of the most influential 1990's acts, the Wu-Tang Clan, is represented only by its Wu Wear spinoff.
Or, rather, Tucker is represented only in the catalogue, by his 1969 essay on modern sculpture in Studio International, just as all of Gustav Metzger's fiery creations and destructions are bypassed for a boring wall of his Page 3 girls.
Love poems may be addressed to someone in particular but the "you" invariably remains unidentified or is represented only by a body part or item of dress – a sleeping head, a naked foot, an air-blue gown.
1. King Lear (1971) The biggest loser from the stipulation that each play is represented only once is Akira Kurosawa, whose 1985 film Ran enthrallingly exported King Lear to the world of Japanese warlords.
