And in its wanton simplicity, it was straight out of the Lynton Crosby playbook.
Architect Harry Weese bemoaned its "wanton destruction".
"I see it with a little mink collar and toggles, or my grandfather's buttons, small and round with kind of a crosshatch pattern," she said, tugging at its seams to give it a wanton shape.
It's wanton destruction in many ways.
It was wanton, craven and totally delicious.
The lawsuit, filed by the Bastardi family in State Supreme Court in Westchester, seeks unspecified damages for what it called "wanton, willful and reckless" conduct by Ms. Schuler.
Instead of recording the normal unpleasantries of factory farming, like chickens with their beaks burned off or unwanted male chicks ground up alive into fertilizer, it recorded wanton cruelty: workers stomping on live chickens, and flinging dozens into a wall.
President Clinton issued a statement when he signed the bill, saying he would instruct the Justice Department to construe the law narrowly, limiting it to "wanton cruelty to animals designed to appeal to a prurient interest in sex".
"Simply for reasons of sentiment and piety, it would be wanton to destroy it," he said of Carnegie Hall at the time.
It's something it wields with wanton expertise, like an épée fencer armed with a chainsaw, a way to layer-cake the game with countless extra levels of emotional resonance and narrative depth until it gets you tearing up three hours into a YouTube vortex as you wonder why Paul McGregor packed it all in just to slink off and front a mediocre East London noise rock band.
