The Eliot: with colorways including straight-ahead tortoise and red w/ navy tips, these curved horn-rimmed affairs feature stainless steel teardrops on either side of their frames, a fitting nod considering he who cries is certainly a Hollow Man.
Technology features heavily, as do humorous, quirky and inane stories, while business, politics and world affairs feature less prominently, if at all.
But until now the offerings have largely been low-budget, single-camera affairs featuring talking heads.
In the early 1920s The Atlantic Monthly expanded its coverage of political affairs, featuring articles by such figures as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Booker T. Washington.
Many of the most popular shows at this year's Fringe were simple affairs featuring an actor telling a story against a bare backdrop.
For every Shooting Stars, HIGNFY or Buzzcocks, there are dozens more resembling the sort of shriekingly witless affairs featured in darkly satirical movies about dumbed-down dystopias.
Thus far, the club's bookings have been less impromptu affairs, featuring national acts like Gil Parris and Bobby Rush, who are familiar to blues fans but not the general public.
Because one was Clara's twin, her birthdays since have been grim affairs featuring presents, ostensibly from the departed children but actually bought by her mother, and a trip to the family mausoleum at Kensal Green cemetery.
Last year – as Britain did last week – Sweden launched a new series of notes, cheery affairs featuring 20th-century Swedish cultural giants such as Astrid Lindgren, the creator of Pippi Longstocking, Greta Garbo and filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
Whereas European farm fairs are relatively intimate affairs featuring well-mannered folk arrayed in oiled Barbour coats, funny tartan hats and other aristocratic froofery, our state fairs are a chaotic collision of thousands of agribusinesses as different and individualistic as the entrepreneurs who run them.
