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The '80s brought Penelope Spheeris's "Decline of Western Civilization Part Two: The Metal Years," a sort of real-life "Spinal Tap".

This lent his latter years a sort of aesthetic shape which he had already attempted to formalise by making Kamila his heir, an effort the Brno courts rejected.

During the Bush years, a sort of counterinsurgency insurgency sprang up both in and out of the government and military — a group of thoughtful dissidents who, from very early on, tried to change American strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

" 'A Bridge Away' is one of our titles," Dad reminds me, referring to the list of good titles he and my mother have kept through the years, a sort of game they play.

Like that work, the new one, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, is the kind of primal-conflict-in-a-candy-wrapper that Ms. Gilmore, 34, has become known for in recent years, a sort of postfeminist take on the absurdity of contemporary life.

Like the famous "Banquet Rousseau," in 1908, at which Picasso and his friends paid homage to Le Douanier Rousseau, the Murphys' péniche party has assumed over the years a sort of legendary aura, so that people who may or may not have been there give vivid and conflicting descriptions of the event.

Mazer first set out his stall away from Baron Cohen in 2012, when he directed his debut film, a non-rom-com with Working Title called I Give It a Year, a sort of twisted Four Weddings and a Funeral.

And more people watched a TV programme called Young Butcher of the Year (a sort of "Butcher Idol", if you can imagine that) than watched a live debate between the candidates for the next chancellor of the exchequer.

The Golden Dagger is the much-coveted prize awarded by the Crime Writers Association CWAWA) for the best crime fiction novel of the year, a sort of Man Booker for the murdering classes.

The following year, a sort of sequel came in the form of the Paradise Papers scoop implicating more than 120 politicians from around the world in similar schemes of quasi-legal tax avoidance.

But at least on Sullivan Street, where the most irksome of civic duties has become a cornerstone of social life over the years -- a sort of twice-a-week, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. block party -- the return of the street sweeper was not without its compensations.