Every great leader's speech is built around a single brilliant theme.
His story is more than the biography of a single brilliant scientist; it is also a fascinating chapter in the history of biology.
The first novel by Australian feminist Miles Franklin, written when she was a teenager and published in 1901, launched more than a single brilliant career.
There are the beautiful sodium lamps under the bridges in Central Park that reveal, through the spectroscope, a single brilliant yellow line.
When Sri Lanka was crushed by 209 runs in its next match, by West Indies, it looked as if it was following the pattern of so many giant-killers, unable to follow up after a single brilliant performance.
Unlike some scholars who flame out after a single brilliant book, Dr. Fukuyama has produced a steady and wide-ranging body of work, delving into sociology with his book "Trust" (1996) and into biotechnology with "Our Posthuman Future" (2003).
While many policy ideas have murky origins, vouchers emerged fully formed from a single, brilliant essay published in 1955 by Milton Friedman, the free-market godfather later to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics.
It is also about doing the job more efficiently, for example when looking for needles of evidence in a haystack of documents: rather than relying on a single brilliant mind, Novus Law deploys teams of lawyers using technology and a process involving hundreds of small steps.
Another previous contribution to the semiotics of abandonment, with different aims, was the project Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland.Sick of waiting for follow-through on demolitions delayed for years, an anonymous group painted properties a single, brilliant color from widely available paint lines.
The story is built around a single brilliant line ("she was struck for a moment by a glimpse of a future in which she would need to muster every ounce of selfishness she had"), but the plot is a contrivance of misery upon misery that doesn't ring true.
The sheer amount of work on display is at times overwhelming and here and there the endless riffs on angular shapes, circles and patterns of light began to blur into a long series of slight variations on a single brilliant idea.
