The cold fusion chemistry between Anderson and her co-star David Duchovny (coupled with rumours of on-set enmity) attracted an audience far wider than its initial cult following, even when it made the Incredible Hulk look a model of scientific rigour by comparison.
It's not just that Beverly is a braying arriviste who preys on her guests and treats her husband, Laurence Andy Nymann, sporting some serious period sideburns), with a contempt that makes Edward Albee's Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" look a model of decorum.
It looks like a model of a building by Zaha Hadid, but more elegant.
Thomas's career looks like a model of how affirmative action is supposed to work.
But at least for now, Labour looks like a model of harmony and discipline in contrast to its Tory rivals.
At first glance, Ferguson's entirely unweaselly statement looks like a model of how a public figure ought to say sorry.
The mood in Riga on election day was positively cheerful: compared with Greece, Latvia looks like a model of adjustment.In this section Slipping into darkness Bail-outs?
Similarly, an untitled piece by Pamela Brown, with its pod-like central element held aloft on a graceful pedestal of iron rods, looks like a model of a rocket launcher or a counterpoint of closed and open curves.
The Mazda of the future, the MotoNari RX, named for the warrior who founded Hiroshima, the company's home city, looks like a model of a Frank Gehry building that someone has sat on.
At first glance, it looks like a model of a caravan park, but the trailer-like buildings are designed to protect their occupants while confining them to a small, utterly faceless environment.
