If you envisage your opening scene to be a pastoral idyll in which a beautiful pair of naked twins skip merrily through flowers and foliage, do not film it in Amsterdam in November.
Thanks to this barrage, as you sit noshing, your appetite is forever skipping merrily ahead to your date with some sweet, icy, milk-based product.
Sultan throughout the show skipped merrily and fluidly from finger-picking to slide to blues chords and around again.
An amorphously shaped, pajama-clad boy named Louie sets out to be a character in an ordinary picture book, "skipping merrily along" and singing "Tra la la," when his path is interrupted by gobs of food descending from an unseen reader.
His presence coaching women, in fact, can be traced to the dead end he met in the men's game, as white assistants skipped merrily past.
Skipping merrily along, the real author describes the imaginary author's trip to Czechoslovakia, his stint as head of a pretentious and marginal writers' group, a period of true weirdness in which he literally murders his critics, his late arrival at fatherhood and his receipt of a Nobel prize.
These days BAR are a speedy power boat, skipping merrily over the waves made by Jenson Button's ill-advised attempts to leave the team at the end of last year.
Writing with Van Dyke Parks, a brilliant songwriter whose lyrics skipped merrily between vivid images and cryptic statements ("I'm fit with the stuff/ to ride in the rough/ and sunny-down snuff, I'm alright"), Mr. Wilson created a set of musical vignettes that described American history from Plymouth Rock to the "columnated ruins" of modern society.
Watch her skipping merrily on the distant grass at the end.
