A world that offers surprises and secrets at virtually every turn, that launches flights of fancy during all activities, whether ordinary or dramatic.
Not the employee who'd acted perfectly ordinary during those dramatic weeks, as Brooklyn tore itself apart looking for Mollie, and Ulises put up missing-person posters, and authorities investigated about 4,000 leads.
It's a parody of the idea behind "An American Family," the 1973 documentary-cum-reality-show; it's also a riotous demolition of the idea behind observational documentaries at large: that ordinary life is dramatic, and that a movie drama can be made from a recording of its outward details.
In an outing called, "On The Road: A Search For American Character," Smith will discuss and perform excerpts from her ongoing and quite fascinating documentary theater project, which, for more than 20 years, has turned heads, generated discussion and garnered praise for the brilliant way it transforms "the words of ordinary people into dramatic monologue".
Dressed in a salmon-colored suit, singer Simon Le Bon noted the influence of Lynch's 1977 film "Eraserhead" on a generation of art students, then dived into "Hungry Like the Wolf" and a fittingly hopeful and dramatic "Ordinary World". Lynch appeared only briefly onstage in the show's final moments to read "a verse of unknown origin" as Donovan strummed an acoustic guitar: "May everyone be happy.
This nasty little tableau also turns up in the final scene of one of two videos that use stop-action animation, crudely made puppets, toys, ordinary household materials and dramatic lighting to produce ridiculous horror-movie-like scenarios.
Film director Danny Boyle, who masterminded the ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in east London, deployed a huge cast including many ordinary Britons as well dramatic special effects.
But only if ordinary Americans grasp that dramatic alternatives exist to current, privacy-eroding practices, and demand strong, comprehensive privacy rights.
Much will depend on how ordinary investors react to the dramatic movements on Friday and Monday.
