Space dictated the startling placing of the largest and most recent piece in Ingram's collection, a gigantic painting by the American artist Aleah Chapin of a grey-haired woman sitting naked on a rock, screaming or yelling in triumph.
Now, however, a new poll finds him in a startling third place in one of those crucial locales.
South Korea is next, then Japan – though the report calls that country one of the "big falls," having dropped a startling 31 places.
On election night in New Hampshire, in early 1992, after he secured a startling second-place finish behind Paul Tsongas, he proclaimed himself the Comeback Kid.
He was a writer widely, and perhaps primarily, admired by other writers for the way in which he could find hard-edged lyricism in the most startling of places, for the formal risks he took with his prose.
On which topic this is the first Twitter Olympics and, reading the tweets during the ceremony, I felt terribly out of step, finding Danny Boyle's production, while startling in places, muddled and over-long and often irrelevant to a worldwide audience.
If anything, there is more going on with painting than ever, and while many artists are working in traditional modes, many others are busy pushing our understanding of the medium to startling new places.
In the very heartland of the US, something startling is taking place.
