The first section examines a multimodal parodic performance that hyperexaggerates a quantitative bragging or boasting ritual, and then contrasts that with a normal voicing of more practical evaluation criteria.

An aspiring director was expected to jump through carefully placed and managed hoops of training, apprenticeship and credentialization.

Eventually such technicality bred countertechnicality, as courts resorted to fine points of procedural doctrine to escape those confines of the record to which the appellant or appellee might try to hold them.

Detective Peter Goodall said the source of the tablets had not been traced. Purple heart or drinamyl tablets, were a stimulant drug and habit-forming.