But not surprisingly, the show is cluttered with nine graceless bronze busts of mutant creatures that seem left over from the artist's figurative phase.
Apparently fashion 500 years from now will include some costumes borrowed from "Gladiator," others from Wall Street and gray uniforms worn by Alliance officers that seem left over from chauffeur characters in 1930's movies.
Too bad, because it would surely have been more interesting than the pleasant but standard-issue veal chop; the mustard-and-herb-crusted rack of lamb; or a phoned-in version of veal Marsala that seemed to be left over from the inn's Italian phase.
The crumbled facade of an ornate brick structure seems like something left over from 17th-century Europe, not upstate New York.
Oh, wait a minute, that metaphor seems to be left over from the previous talking point, sorry.... "I would urge every single person who ever questioned Barack Obama's birth certificate to apply the same amount of scrutiny and logical reasoning to Ted Cruz's Canadian birth certificate as they did to Obama's.
The key to lively sandwich-making, of course, is the freshest possible ingredients, and this was generally the case, though on one of three visits, the bread seemed dry, as if left over from the day before.
I know, times are tight and 7 out of 10 Americans report living paycheck to paycheck, meaning there never seems to be enough left over for savings.
The pepper confetti, for instance, that Mr. Keller uses as a garnish -- sparingly enough to save it from seeming like an anachronism left over from the first wave of California cuisine -- is created by first flaying red, green and yellow bell peppers, and then slicing their lobes to the thinness of onion skin.
A few years ago, JetBlue and Commerce might have seemed like eccentric experiments, anachronisms left over from the days before companies were thought to need "global reach".
They seemed to be gray apparatchiks left over from the pre-Giuliani era -- maybe even the pre-Koch era, to judge from the promises they were making to unions and community groups and assorted activists.
