(Also, the ostensible lead, Mark Harmon, has the grace and good sense not to try to dominate.) On the evidence of Tuesday night's first episode, "NCIS: Los Angeles" is going to try for something similar, but it takes time: "NCIS" has had six seasons.
A large part of this has to do with the series' ostensible lead.
In this one, the two '80s superstars Stallone, who plays the ostensible lead, and Schwarzenegger, the off-lead who steals the picture, are fighting against America's secret prison system, Blackwater, and blacker elements of the CIA, finding common cause with Arabs and Muslims headed by the guy whose capture of Tony Stark in the first Iron Man movie gave rise to the famous powered suit.
After all, I have cowboy boots that are older than the two ostensible leads, young everyman-in-every-movie Shia LaBeouf and the preposterously sexy Megan Fox.
That line, said not by Leslie Nielsen but to him (by Robert Hays, the ostensible male lead of "Airplane!," the movie in question), might be taken to sum up Mr. Nielsen's career, or at least the part of it that people are most likely to remember.
Although Lee had originally been cast as the second lead, he so completely dominated the ostensible star, James Tien, that their roles were reversed during production.
This kind of dimensional ambiguity isn't new to Wiley's work; in "Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps," a large-scale painting that used to hang in the high-ceilinged front lobby of the Brooklyn Museum, a damask of ovoid gold-on-blood-red occasionally steals the foreground from the portly man astride his horse who is the painting's ostensible star.
The poem, tempting us to correct an ostensible error, leads us to make our own error; only when we go back and correct our correction does the poem's subtle play of one and many, past and future, presence and absence, become clear.
These conditions attracted decision errors, pressures, and other ostensible issues which led to deliberate and unintended violations.
Mr. Steinbach's objects made of objects have always given us more to look at and think about than his ostensible cultural critiques would lead you to expect.
The ostensible rationale for a new Led Zeppelin book would seem to be Blake's belief that Grant was subordinate only to castle-dwelling guitarist Page on the Led Zeppelin org chart, and that even Plant — the very archetype of the preening, open-shirted frontman — took his orders from the manager.
