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Now, after 1,016 yards allowed in just two weeks and fighting on the bench to offer evidence of descension, there’s reason to wonder whether those four straight wins represented real, structural progress.

Pier 1, opened in 2010, has been home to multiple temporary art installations, including Anish Kapoor’s whirlpool-like “Descension” in 2017 and the giant orange bells of Davina Semo’s “Reverberation,” currently on view.

When that was turned down because of political overtones, they submitted “Descension,” which depicted people being moved down an escalator into a gear, which Thune said explored the process of self-destruction through greed and loss of empathy.

As dishonest as the “debate” over encryption has been, the dark descension of the Republican party into outright racism and cynically playing off the irrational fears of the public over the Syrian refugee crisis has been worse.

Still further on, Descension is a roiling whirlpool that Kapoor vouches goes to the center of the earth.