After the Nouvelle Vague, and certainly after Fassbinder, Duras, and perhaps The Godfather, what was there left to respect? The multiplex and the summer locomotive picture; the Europuddings and hyphenate productions that had neither local flavor nor radical ambitions[…]

The English doctrine of tacking was first solemnly established in Marsh v . Lee , under the assistance of Sir Matthew Hale , who compared the operation to a plank in shipwreck gained by the last mortgagee

Like the Linean system for categorizing organisms, the assembly taxonomy is flexible, allowing for future refinement.

It seemed a perfect tonic to the man to seek out some long-established relationship […] and interpose his dissolutive bulk between the pair-bonding, unsticking the accretions of years, experiences, children…even love.