The reporters make polite requests for quotations that can be fitted into various daily profiles, setup pieces, sidebars, and other burdens of the sports-writing racket.
What if white pursues multiple loose strategies at the same time, so that whichever setup of pieces black tries to dismantle, white can shift to another offensive, taking advantage of black's missed turn?
The scrim lifted to reveal an appropriately elaborate setup: four-piece rhythm section, three horns, three backup singers and a D. J., Green Lantern, along with some large-scale video screens.
You don't need an elaborate setup or pieces, or much of them, to make your home feel cozy and comfortable.
And it was instructive to see the media so disoriented upon being deprived of the familiar setups, set-pieces and bubble-like environments of a modern presidential campaign.
Yet as it was happening, all I could think was that it was a fine setup for a piece of fiction.
For nearly two hours, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee moved between three main posts on the elaborate Detour stage setup, the main piece being a gigantic replica of the ancient Lupe-O-Tone television set he watched growing up in Liverpool in the late '50s and early '60s.
