"There was no moralizing, just a matter-of-fact presentation of desire and love".
By all accounts, the matter-of-fact presentation of these couples, without a comment from Mr. Philbin or anyone else, has altered the television landscape.
There's a strong whiff of Python hanging over the series, as the matter-of-fact presentation introduces commuters flying to work, pigs organising themselves into trade unions, and composing computers powered by the DNA of Gilbert and Sullivan, but there are also plenty of very subtle visual jokes that you'll miss if you blink.
It didn't add up to much, and neither did Ms. Tanjuaquio's "Divide," a pleasant enough duo (danced by Ms. Tanjuaquio and Chia Ying Kao to music by Todd Richmond) that looks something like Ms. Fenley's work, although a more fluid idiom animates the deliberate, clear style and matter-of-fact presentation.
The exception is perhaps "The Diagonal of May 25 , 1963" one of Mr. Flavin's first works to use standard fluorescent lights in simple, matter-of-fact presentations, in this case a single white tube hung diagonally along the wall.
Mr. Dunn's minimal solos focus on matter-of-fact, deadpan presentation of pure movement.
The installation, on long-term display at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, is so deceptively simple, so matter-of-fact in its presentation — and so sublime in its effect — that it may be impossible to do it justice.
"A wharf?" As a matter of fact, San Francisco's presentation "will include a video component that showcases the best of what the San Franscisco Bay area has to offer the 2012 Olympics," said Tony Winnicker, the spokesman for that city's Olympic bid.
What hit her hardest, Ms. Genot said, was a public presentation by a torture victim who told his story in a matter-of-fact, emotionless way, and then said, "I wonder why they did it".
