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Rich, 54, a decidedly stolid type who composes their music and plays guitar, recalled, “Hair metal was big.”

In their chickens, though — with close-set beady eyes and faces far more expressive than a real chicken’s stolid look could ever be — the studio located comic gold.

They have sometimes been, by turns, stolid, corrupt and ineffectual, but virtually any semblance of organization is better than nothing, because non-union workers don’t strike.

The final season is as much Allam’s as it is Evans’s, with the stolid, old-school Thursday struggling in his roles as cop, husband, father and, to Morse, surrogate dad.

Although many disliked the building’s brooding, stolid architecture, the Breuer came to be considered the ideal space in which to show 20th and 21st century art and sculpture.