Word: abstractedly
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...Oakland Tribune, agrees: "When people see a TV person shoving a mike in front of a grieving relative, all of us in the press appear to be boorish and ghoulish." TV executives reply that print can get away with more aggressive behavior because it is gray and abstract rather than immediate...
documentary is "true" in any abstract philosophical sense. It inevitably omits essential points; it fails to show what was not filmed; it reflects the viewpoints, if not the biases, of its makers. Yet in its effort to be true, in its search for the way things really happened, the documentary justifies its own shortcomings. Truth, even when only partly grasped, can be seen to have a certain dignity, a majesty. This is testimony. We sense that we have an obligation to listen, to watch...
...them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing you probably hunt about till you find the exact words that seem to fit." The alternative method promises treachery: "When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning...
...took on not only Nazis and Stalinists and all advocates of the expedient lie but the solipsism of much modern philosophy and literature. Theories that reality is simply the spider web of word spinners left him aghast; that way lay the dictatorship of the speaker and, ultimately, the abstract, ominous slogans of Nineteen Eighty-Four: WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH...
Wines brings to his new assignment a flair that disturbs some, amuses others and fascinates nearly everyone. He never received formal architectural training but studied art and art history at Syracuse University and thereafter embarked on a successful career as an abstract sculptor. In 1968, while casting bronze sculpture at a foundry in Long Island City, N.Y., he met Alison Sky, an experimental sculptor and poet. Two years later, with Photographer-Writer Michelle Stone, they launched a design firm called SITE, an acronym for "sculpture in the environment...