Americans did it with the outsize sculpture form in the 60s and 70s.
There are, in the long, checkered history of human-elephant relations, countless stories of lethal elephantine assaults, and almost invariably of some gruesomely outsize, animalistic form of retribution exacted by us.
In eight separate scenes, as Mr. Marsalis and his band play, dancers interact onstage with Mr. Puryear's outsize organic forms: an enormous clay vase, suspended upside down from the ceiling, that embodies fertility; a giant curling spatula, part frond, part hoe, that suggests planting and new growth; a staircase that implies death.
It is rare that a human system develops into a fractal; most become top-heavy, with a few outsize elements dominating form and function.
Unlike many of the outsize super PACs formed in recent years to wage expensive advertising campaigns, Ready for Hillary is trying to build a list of enthusiastic volunteers and repeat small donors, emulating the model that proved to be Mr. Obama's most significant strategic advantage in battling an onslaught of Republican outside groups last year.
And it claimed that this special treatment and the outsize returns "were a form of compensation by Madoff" to Mr. Chais for steering millions of dollars of other people's money into the Ponzi scheme.
So I've mentally stored the tale about bridge, just as I'd earlier stored the information unleashed a while ago on Radio 3 that Poulenc, though not I think diagnosed manic depressive, was at least so bi-polar that he used to go out on the street wearing a hat with an outsize brim as a form of signal.
The strips occur in other pieces, always accompanied by an outsize film reel and canister made of soft lead that form one of the show's best details.
Lately there has been a strenuous and sophistic effort to show that the new social media — Facebook, especially, but there are certainly others — are just outsize reworkings of earlier forms of social organization, like the elite clubs of the Ivy League that have enjoyed a mystique since the 1960s.
It involves the notion that outsize bonuses and other forms of short-term lucre were culprits in the excessive risktaking that caused the financial crisis.
A youth in a baseball cap, his slim form casting an outsize gigantic shadow, detests his own smell.
