And that puts them in conflict with the people who revolve in and out of the revolving door.
They're best friends who revolve in the same centrifuge, swim in neighboring lanes, and read together at night.
But then, in Mr. Macintyre's hands, all the men and women who revolve around the story of Operation Mincemeat are larger and stranger than life.
For "Better Call Saul" to succeed, it will need characters like him to become as robust and fascinating as those who revolved around Walt — because, ultimately, the show needs to tell a story that's bigger than its protagonist.
Orpheus has come through some administrative reorganization lately, but it still works as it always has: instead of following a conductor, the principal players (who revolve from work to work) settle on the details of an interpretation and convey them to their sections.
Here, though, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain switching from right to left and Alexis Sánchez buzzing behind Danny Welbeck, one thing was clear from the start: this is Sánchez's attack right now, a front four who revolve around his relentless, high pressure take on the trequartista role, so different in texture and tempo to the Özil-centred machine of early season.
Above the clock is a set of figures, which hit the bells, and a set of jousting knights who revolve around a track every 15 minutes.
Today - after the amicable departure of Flemons and Robinson for their own solo projects - the band, more than ever, is a shifting troupe of young African-American folk musicians who revolve around Rhiannon Giddens.
Sunday's New York Times published an op-ed, "The Myth of Industrial Rebound," by Steven Rattner, one more wealthy Wall Street executive who revolved through the door from being an Obama administration official after he revolved through the door from being a Wall Street executive.
"She's kind of like the main person who things revolve around, and that I rely on to get anything done," said Mr. De Niro.
Jeff Hauser, who runs the Revolving Door Project, a nonprofit focussed on government corruption, told me that Icahn's relationship with Trump is a particularly bald example of a kind of clientalist politics that has been more typical, historically, of banana republics, but which is on the rise in the United States.
