But cable news has been flooded with graphic and disturbing images of burning cars, torched buildings and violent clashes between police and protesters.
One of the television channels stopped reporting torched cars for fear of encouraging competition between different groups of young men.
Germany's changing role, analysts say, reflects the passing of the torch between generations.
& here the moment, just after the lights go out, when you can still see the faint torch between his legs.
It started snowing and we were all wearing heels, and we had one torch between the five of us but because we were all so tired, we thought it was the funniest thing.
Until now, golf has seen a nearly seamless passing of the torch between great players, about every 10 years: Ben Hogan to Arnold Palmer, Palmer to Jack Nicklaus, Nicklaus to Tom Watson, and Watson, for the sake of argument, to Greg Norman and Fred Couples.
A 2010 news analysis article in The International Herald Tribune reported, "Germany no longer seems satisfied playing the role of the gentle giant of Europe… [Its] changing role, analysts say, reflects the passing of the torch between generations".
"Thunder," which Mr. Glover keeps referring to as a "fairy tale" is also about "the passing of the torch between fathers and sons and about the redemptive power of love," in the words of Mitchell Maxwell, one of the Off Broadway production's producers.
Still, watching Ong work in the cramped open kitchen is fascinating: there's barely enough room for him and a sous-chef as they labor feverishly back to back, with only a pint-size convection oven and a single brûlée torch between them.
The passing of the environmental torch between the Bush and Obama administrations became ever more evident last week when EPA head Lisa Jackson announced that carbon dioxide is now an official pollutant.
