But the rest of the piece flickers with Holiday's complex personality, interpreted on Wednesday by Asha Thomas with sensitivity to the twined threads of ambition, yearning and wrecked subservience, though Billie's final debasement could have used a little less truculence.
This was a real ship, wrecked in 1715, though here it is repurposed as the carrier of the titular treasure from Treasure Island.
His decade-long tenure was tainted by allegations of police abuses, though he also tried to restore institutions wrecked by Mr. Moi.
If it had hit an inhabited area, though, it could have wrecked local power supplies.
The protesters in Cairo wrecked the regional formula, though their ambitions have yet to offer a paradigm to replace it.
Then as the offstage trumpet sounded and freedom and justice were in sight, all kinds of interventions wrecked the moment dramatically, though, it must be said, never musically.
The poor fellow ended up needing to pick a pocket or two as much as Fagin himself, wrecked and destitute, even though Mackintosh generously cut the composer back into some of the stage rights he sold off in his darkest hour.
Tough, single-minded to the point of selfishness and often difficult to live with, he raged against the turn of fate that had wrecked his life and though it's tempting to say that without it he would not have been a writer, I'm not sure this is true.
Skrenta, who's very media savvy, won't say much about how he's going to tackle search (he's not a fan of PageRank though:"PageRank wrecked the web. Google is the cause of all of this. and Google is going down with it").
"I suppose that would've wrecked Flor's budding romance though".
