The Americans have grown weary of answering questions about Hammon's decision, more or less concluding that agreeing to disagree is the most prudent course of action.
It examines a web of theories about the case and more or less concludes that the culprits were David Turner, now serving a 38-year prison term for attempting to rob an armored car, and George Reissfelder, a felon who died in 1991.
It alternates between druggy decadence in Côte d'Azur mansions and increasingly elaborate, increasingly lucrative tours around the world, and more or less concludes with the Stones having established themselves as what they have been for a generation, an unparalleled industrial behemoth of rock.
Ms. Lessing concluded: "I think it is that girl and the women who were talking about books and an education when they had not eaten for three days, that may yet define us".
Anything less, it concluded, would not be "meaningful judicial review".
"Ben, you are a storyteller, nothing more but nothing less," he concluded.
"What they expect from us is a smooth entry, a V.I.P. table and nothing less," he concluded.
"However, a significant proportion of those people issued with a national insurance number have since been active on our tax and benefit systems for less than 12 months, suggesting that the difference between these two figures can be largely attributed to short-term migration of 12 months or less," it concluded.
Reviewing the production in The New York Times in 2001, Bruce Weber wrote that its author "seems to have inherited the family hubris; that's a good thing, more or less," but concluded, "Alas, the apple has fallen farther from the tree than one might wish".
