Mr. Murphy, an Irish performer, relies on numerous film-and-television snippets projected onto geometric screens surrounding the stage to underscore points about heartbreak and intimacy.
Many citizens in this, the world's most populous democracy have glared at the grainy video snippets on television, transfixed by the sight of hands reaching out greedily for stacks of rupees and the sound of loot crinkling as it brushes past hidden microphones.
Along the way he showcases plenty of television news snippets of Oswald and his assassin, Jack Ruby Mr. Lanee; the future senator Arlen Specter, who coined the dismissive phrase "magic bullet"; and other pivotal players.
And Mr. Fator and his seven-piece band gave the crowd what it no doubt wanted: mild jokes that made reference to football and ancient television shows; snippets of oldies ("Duke of Earl," "Earth Angel"); a support-the-troops segment that included asking military personnel to stand and be applauded.
To be thorough, you'd have to include not only the albums people buy and the songs they download and the radio stations they listen to, but the theme music they hear on television, the snippets they hear blaring out of passing cars, the off-key renditions their friends sing.
I sent along a video snippet.
Television ads recreated snippets from "The Gold Rush" and other Chaplin silent films, while billboards and buses throughout Israel were plastered with images of the Little Tramp as a lottery ticket salesman.
But this visually stylish work, with its vintage glamour photos, film and television clips, and snippets from a 1951 B-movie, "Racket Girls," is more of a scrapbook than a coherent history of the sport during its rough-and-tumble infancy.
The commercials incorporated snippets of television news broadcasts.
In "Spiriti" (Spirits), Mr Benni whips up popular urban mythology and snippets of television news into his own personal brand of satire.
In his absence, French-language television repeatedly broadcast last week snippets from an interview he gave a few hours before he was shot.
