Escande levelled once more but the new France captain, Guilhem Guirado, was hauled off shortly afterwards as Toulon searched vainly for the right set-piece combinations.
The 14-piece combination is arranged in a seven-note scale while the other two are in scales of 12 semitones.
The company also offers pantyhose for men and novel items like "Star(c kNaked," a one-piece combination, including stockings, that can be worn as a dress or skirt.
The viola is a focal point only in that its calm, sustained tones seem to anchor the piece; changeable combinations of pianissimo flute, violin, cello, percussion and piano figures (or often, detached single-tone gestures) revolve around it.
There was only one good piece of combination play from the home side, when Willian and Oscar combined in narrow positions, before the latter slipped in Costa to fire wide from the inside-right channel.
As Heffernan observes in her piece, this combination of conceptual humor and raw improv has long been pivotal to "S.N.L".
Here, Pugh's gothic-abstract aesthetic in Melissa's signature plastic: an exoskeletal sandal that inches over the ankle with a trio of vertebrae-like pieces in combinations of black, white and silver.
"There were a lot of fresh pieces, great combinations of contrast and texture, and we saw a great opportunity to bring some of those out," said Martin Bone, the design director of IDEO, a branding and design firm hired by Ms. Fisher last year, at an initial cost of $500,000, to give the brand a discreet nip and tuck.
The multimedia artist refers to the entire project as a "narrative frame piece"—a combination of images, music, and a cypher, a cryptic string of numbers placed at the top and bottom of the page.
"We tried it with five pieces, four pieces, three pieces – all different combinations when we were first toying with this idea and we found that the simple top-half/bottom-half gave the best experience.
