THE most striking thing about the wine shelves of the average supermarket is the sheer range and profusion of wines on offer.
The additions and a profusion of facade styles ranging from masonry and vinyl to brick and stucco tell of decades of work by home improvement contractors and heavy-duty do-it-yourselfers in a place where a premium is placed on keeping up houses.
And nowadays, from car to kitchen, from office to driving range, there is a profusion of gadgets that harness the latest micro technologies and the wackiest thinking of garage inventors.
The event will occupy two adjacent Midtown hotels, drawing thousands of attendees (roughly 8,000 in recent years) for a profusion of clinics, showcases and panels; topics range from the pragmatic ("How to Successfully Market and Distribute Your Music Online") to the pedagogical ("Connecting With Kids in the Classroom") to the conceptual ("Hip-Hop and Jazz -- an Organic Blend").
There is a profusion of architectural styles in the city, ranging from Gothic to semi-Tudor, Romanesque to Italian Renaissance, and the remarkable feature of the buildings is that they are virtually all made of wood.
Supermarkets in every city have rows of shelf space dedicated to a profusion of instant noodle brands in a baffling range of flavors.
Sirk here uses the full range of his technique, from the disorienting profusion of mirrors and frames within frames to cutaway images that comment bitterly, even cruelly, on the situation of the characters: a howling drunk in a death's-head mask who interrupts a couple's embrace; a slow pan from a corpse being fished from a bay to a couple kissing passionately in the backseat of a car.
The profusion of ceramic vessels and abstracted images of vessels, ranging from teacups to vast installations, shocks with aggressive forms and blazing colors, and its obvious, hellbent determination to please solicits opinion.
However, identifying evidence to inform best-practice is an increasingly complex undertaking, a consequence of the profusion of medical literature and its dispersal over a broad range of journals and bibliographic databases.
At their best these carpets are extremely handsome, combining an elaborate overall repeat pattern of ogival lozenges with a profusion of extravagantly styled blossoms of varied form, in a wide range of rich and harmonious colours.
