Set on one perfect night, Ed takes Lucy on a Shadow hunt across the streets of Melbourne, a night of romance, lyricism and art.
"Seating Arrangements," Maggie Shipstead's smart and frothy debut novel, is set on a perfect John Cheever island — the kind where old-money families gather to drink gin and nurture loyalties.
And so, as the sun set on a perfect autumn day, we headed east to Motown, passing the landmark Uniroyal tire, as gigantic as the Ferris wheel inside that holds it up.
Ahead of this week's no-doubt hair-raising exploration of homosexuality in Russia, this opener is an eye-opening insight into a country that, at best, seems unhealthily in thrall to its own persecution complex and, at worst, set on creating perfect conditions for an unapologetic far right.
Set on a perfect-looking street called Wisteria Lane, on which every blade of grass seems to have been individually waxed (the street is the one that was used for the NBC series "Providence," and it recalls the sanitized-for-your-protection look of the town in "The Truman Show"), the show centers on four women who are friends but don't, it turns out, know each other that well.
Although Bruce is keeping her eye on potential competitions, she also wants to build up her personal training business and has her eyes set on the perfect celebrity client: Chaz Bono, the transgender son of Cher, who has quick-stepped his way to controversy on "Dancing With The Stars" this season.
Rational being that I am, I enjoyed the intent of these rhyming refrains but thought in the back of my head that they must have been conjured up to console some teary, far-less-joyful-than-I bride who'd been set on a perfect day for her nuptials.
We then used a dot plot [ 57] to compare the three C. sativa upstream sequences to each other and to Arabidopsis with parameters set for perfect match on a sliding window of 9 bases (Additional File 6).
Still, if you are set on a picture-perfect proposal, only the most lovely locales will do.
But the cumulative effect – something akin to watching celluloid soaked in LSD and set on fire – is a perfect fit with the marketing tagline used to sell it: "Take the trip".
"By the way, do you know about the Manhattan solstice?" MacDermid said, referring to a semi-annual phenomenon, sometimes known as Manhattanhenge, in which the sun sets on a perfect horizontal axis with the grid of streets.
