Like the Comment pieces that lead The Talk of the Town section in the magazine every week, these online columns will feature notes and opinions on the events of the day by The New Yorker's writers.
For one, we value pieces that lead to a satisfying resolution, particularly if they are colored with negative affect, since this experience is rare in everyday life.
Although Chivas played well for most of the match, the single major mistake on the set piece that led to the goal left them without any points for a second consecutive week.
"Her instincts about how to work with a writer are just right on," says Melissa Bank, who was unknown four years ago when Ms. Brodeur assigned her a piece that led to "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a $275,000 book advance, a best seller and a Disney movie that is being co-produced by Mr. Coppola's film production company, American Zoetrope.
He also played his part in a fully functioning lineout, the set piece that led to many driving mauls and tries for Billy Vunipola and himself, and the spectacular breakout by the replacement hooker Schalk Brits for the bonus-point fourth try.
The case of Khadija Ismayilova, the investigative journalist who has uncovered corruption and cronyism in the Azerbaijani elite and was arrested two days after she spoke to the Guardian for the piece that led to our being banned, has become emblematic.
Other works about the process of perception range from Matthew McCaslin's "To the Rainbow," in which a humidifier blows steam through light to generate a highly tenuous rainbow on the wall, to Kathy Drasher's untitled octagonal wall piece that leads the eye on a subtle journey from palest orange to rose.
Gabby Torres was barely visible and as the game went on Nasco went from redoubtable last line to fumbling weak link, as he dropped two set-pieces that led to goals, saw another own-goal deflect in off him, and watched helplessly as Javier Morales, who was excellent all night, drove a swerving corner straight into the net (there was a hint of a deflection from Jaime) for the go-ahead goal.
Scotland's line-out malfunctioned badly in last weekend's bruising defeat to South Africa and it was another errant set-piece that led to the game's first try.
But autonomous driving technology may be the missing piece that leads us to the place where, yes, we won't need roads.
On small margins did their Triple Crown dreams die - Brown making a diving save of a kick-ahead that would have pleased Joe Hart, the backfield entirely open had the ball got through; Jonny Sexton sticking a re-start out on the full to trigger the England set-piece that led to Danny Care's critical try.
