Unfortunately, Mr. DeGarmo did not continue to explore such kinetic ambiguities.

The museum, known as Mocad, presented his first opportunity to explore the tensions and ambiguities - between urban and suburban, resilience and decay - on a meaningful scale.

Throughout the cold war at least, the dangers were abstract and remote enough to permit writers and filmmakers to explore the mistakes and moral ambiguities of intelligence work.

The novella "In the Light of Day" (1960) explores ambiguities of guilt, bravery and memory as a soldier makes a visit to the widow of his fallen friend and unit officer.

In the first and third movements, Haydn explores "ambiguities of tonality ... which eventually reach their peak of subtlety" of the first movement of Symphony No. 94.

The cutout, says the curator in her catalogue introduction, is not only a handy vehicle in which to explore "spatial ambiguities" (whatever they are), it is also flexible enough to express "personal concerns."

Many Horn works also explore ambiguities in the idea of lenses.

Among the other artists exploring ambiguities of surface is Sara Crisp, whose untitled encaustic painting features an object suspended, like an insect in amber, in a waxy niche.

Both have also based their humor on seemingly rigid categories, including race and gender; yet they play with boundaries, exhilaratingly breaking them down while exploring ambiguities.

Like Laurie Anderson, she tends to weave a non-narrative fabric of associations that conveys meaning implicitly rather than explicitly, often exploring the difficulties and ambiguities of human relationships.