By studiously re-creating the past, Graham's play forces us to ponder the future.
They studiously watched pirated films from Russia, France and Asia and began to lionise auteurs such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman.Their first nod to film-making was in 2010 when they created a series of posters of imaginary films they would have made if they could.
Though Brennan has been studiously left off the Hoffa slate, he remains the id of the Hoffa campaign, giving feverish and disjointed voice to its core belief: that the Clinton Administration, the Department of Justice and the quasi-official bodies created to oversee the teamsters are hopelessly partisan, and excused Carey's imperfections in order to keep Hoffa out.
For a show in Athens, and again for the Whitney Biennial in 2002, he re-created Kilgallen's wall paintings, studiously embodying her hand.
He has remained studiously noncommittal and, about the historic decision to create the post of prime minister, publicly silent.
Ms. Burton studiously avoids the Wagnerian mystique associated with Hedda's past, creating instead a portrait of a woman who doesn't want to be a lady but is scared to be anything else.
With a convincing Natalie Portman handling the title role, Jackie centers on Kennedy's time as the first lady, creating a close, complex portrait of the famously calm and studiously regal woman shouldering an entire nation's pain and sorrow.
It doesn't help matters that scientists studiously mapping the fjords are finding, over and over again, that they're deeper than previously believed, creating more opportunities for the warm ocean to trigger melting.
Its mind-bending mundanity and pared-down plotlines are the perfect compliment; to create more involved narrative arcs might undermine what is so special about the show: namely, how studiously stupid it all is.
History is likely to say that Bush & Baker, after helping to create the conditions in which a new world order might develop, steered clear of the enterprise They studiously separated foreign-policy "winners" from "losers," avoiding the latter.
