All true.The rule that no political achievement is unmarred by lapses holds especially firmly in India, which seems to sprawl across eras as much as across human terrain.
"The Future's Void," her new album, sprawls and pulses, as much like unpredictable weather as like music.
Within the sprawl of nonfiction there is as much genre- and convention-dependency as in fiction.
The new festival Sonic: Sounds of a New Century was notable as much for sprawling over New York, with 14 concerts in 11 performance spaces in nine days, as for its promise that all the music presented would be written by composers 40 or younger.
Also, air pollution, another by-product of sprawl, can increase death rates by as much as 26%, primarily from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary dysfunctions.
And so we see the distinctive American mentality, which explains the westward crossing as much as the suburban sprawl and the frenzied dot-com-style enthusiasms.
But my 13-year-old daughter, Margot, sprawled on the couch watching sitcoms, showed as much enthusiasm for planet gazing as Scarlett O'Hara would have had for joining the typing pool.
The deputy prime minister talked as if this was as much a battle against urban sprawl as to increase the nation's housing stock.
On Friday evening, the first round of those disclosures was filed, and the Times reported that the couple "will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business still worth as much as $741 million".
And lie sprawled on the sofa talking on her cell phone as much as she wanted.
