Mr. Kunstler, who died in 1995 at the age of 76, is linked with some of the most memorable chapters of late 20th-century American history, events whose shorthand labels — the Chicago Seven, Attica, Wounded Knee — offer a capsule history of a turbulent time.
Mr. Liu, the city comptroller and a Democratic candidate for mayor, has raised the run-of-the-mill, platitude-laden graduation speech to a high art, using the occasions to offer a capsule version of his own years inside the New York City school system and winning fans among the many audience members he makes sure to congratulate.
For each the counselor offered a capsule review.
Type in "François Hollande," and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children, partner, birthday, education, and so forth.
As the relationship between the two characters grows more intimate and more fraught, Melville offers a capsule history of Vichy as framework and metaphor.
And for listeners not versed in European history, Mr. McBurney offered a capsule portrait of the years following World War I, when Bartok composed this brutal, pointed theater work.
Alongside his practical plea for religious attention to the needs of working families and the role of labor unions, Mr. Sweeney offered a capsule theology of work, rooted in the sacraments and a doctrine of "God's ongoing act of creation".
Neither the designers nor the bureaucrats micromanaging them could bear to consider day, let alone work, wear; Elsa Schiaparelli, the couturière with a gift for witty practicality, advised the Soviets: "Do not waste the best of your energies on evening dresses but on day wear," and on a visit to the USSR in the mid-1930s offered a capsule wardrobe for the red working woman.
Each one offers a capsule biography and a mug shot of one or another 20th-century bad fella, a motley lineup that includes the Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno R. Hauptmann and the murderer Ruth Snyder, the first woman to die in the electric chair.
Recently renovated Hotel Lois offers a capsule-sized sleepover, with 10 modishly minimalist, bright white bedrooms within a few minutes' walk of the old town and Riazor beach.
Downstairs is a Stephen Shore retrospective; his supersize color images and small snapshots offer a time capsule of 1970s America.
