Nilsson yanks the artistic medium from its maudlin affiliations, using it to construct knotty, painted worlds that are as formally convoluted as they are thematically nasty.
And like all the world's knottiest problems, the premise of all global conflict was undermined with startling simplicity, not through Lennon-ist peacenik soundbites but a determined, rational unpicking of the logic topped off with the doozy of a rug-pull; what is it you are actually hoping for?
As with so many knotty issues in the new media world, transparency with the reader is the key.
Annie Gosfield's "Five Characters Walk Into a Bar," inspired by the five-character codes used by the Danish Resistance during World War II, wrangled knotty five-note clusters with an improviser's sense of spontaneity and propulsion.
The 24-year-old Ms. Phoenix, the youngest member of the close-knit acting dynasty, is relaxed and possesses a wry sense of humor, a world away from the knotty Esther.
One of the knottiest human rights problems in the world concerns the North Koreans hiding in China, probably 30,000 to 100,000 of them.
Subjects ranged from the English civil war in The Staffordshire Rebels (1965) and local railways in The Knotty (1966) to the audience's second world war memories in Hands Up!
As we reflect on how our country, and others around the world, should deal with the knotty issue of immigration, it's worth asking, "What should guide our decision making?
Will a wider public ever embrace knotty electro pop?
The reality is complex, messy, knotty".
