There's a thread dropped that may lead to an answer, though: some of the revelers were high on designer drugs.
Kristine Nielsen's Sonia, who early on reveals a promisingly lunatic crush on David Hyde Pierce's Vanya (her brother; well, adopted brother; well, gay adopted brother...), sees that thread dropped in favor of repeatedly hitting the same woebegone note.
A great deluge of nylon threads drops down from the ceiling, splashing on the floor like the waves of an ocean, a girl's soft curls, or the upward spatter of pouring rain.
Just plain good abstract painting is represented by SueJin Jo's two acrylics on canvas, which seem to have picked up one of the promising threads dropped by second-generation Abstract Expressionism.
"Where everyone's been for five years became a big part of the story," he said, detailing the obstacles and opportunities he's faced while trying to pick back up the threads dropped when the show was cancelled.
It picks up emotional threads and drops them; then, years and experiences later, it picks them up again.
As they waited in line, some of the men swung brass prayer wheels, and some of the women spun woollen thread on drop spindles.
Skidelsky, particularly in the first two volumes (for some reason, the thread is dropped in the third), is deft in bringing out this moral implication of Keynes's work; but he is troubled by it, too.
Mitch's latest mediocre sitcom has committed network-assisted suicide, and if he doesn't get another role, his powerful agency, where he hangs by a thread, will drop him.
Falkirk's Championship title chances are hanging by a thread after dropping points against relegated Morton.
