Lenny Kravitz's rowdy remake of the 70's classic "American Woman" had been thoroughly dissected, and the music director of Toronto's CHUM-FM radio station was satisfied that it was, indeed, Canadian.

John Morris's Palladian villa in town, at 12, Grosvenor Square (1727, for John Aislabie) has been thoroughly dissected by the Survey of London Morris's independent designs are not pale exercises in Palladianism by any means.

Hurley's pain, his near-death experience, has been thoroughly dissected these last 10 months.

He had little interest in religion-- it had been too thoroughly dissected for him in the novels.

Eliot has been whittled down to size in recent years, but he has never been dissected so thoroughly as he is here.

Then comes the East Texas timber belt, broad in the northeast, narrowing to a point before reaching the Rio Grande, a low and thoroughly dissected escarpment of sandy Eocene strata.

By now, the American dream has been thoroughly dissected, but American values continue to be trumpeted by politicians as the country's most fruitful export.

WHEN the Queen Mary II docks in Red Hook, Brooklyn, as it will about 30 times this year, passengers will set foot (though perhaps only briefly) in a neighborhood that has been thoroughly dissected by local writers who chronicle every nano-step of its gentrification as if it were front-page news.

The letters for relatives have been thoroughly dissected now that Mr. McCall is running for governor.

Cito Gaston, whose managerial prowess has been one of the hottest topics in this town for two years, whose moves are among the most thoroughly dissected, is living proof that living well is the best revenge.