Word: blur
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Noise, in a word, says it all. The Noise movement began in the 1930’s as musique concrete, an attempt to blur the lines between music and ambient sounds, and to incorporate those noises we encounter on a daily basis into music. Today noise often shares a sound and rhythm with techno, while incorporating a variety of not-traditionally-musical sounds. Of course, it’s just as often arhythmic, often amelodic, and consequently, often very unpleasant to listen to—often on purpose...
...developed a jump shot that's excellent from 24 feet away and deadly at midrange. Then there's his speed. In his college days at Georgetown, sports photographers actually had to ditch their autofocus cameras in favor of more sensitive manual equipment--Iverson was showing up as only a blur...
...blurbs that accompany the novel describe this it as Rushdie’s first “American” novel. Certainly the novel is preoccupied with America, and the frequent rants about America’s failings further blur the distinction between Solanka and Rushdie: “Who let Charlton Heston out of his cage and then wondered why children were getting killed at school?” The novel brims with Rushdie’s acerbic wit, particularly in his portrayal of an ever-more wealthy and jaded America and its accoutrements. He name drops with alarming...
...collapsed in this way, chiefly Bridget Riley and Soto. With Soto, the effects are very direct but used, at best, with extreme subtlety. A black wire traces a line against some other lines behind it and at an angle to it, and the crossings move and optically blur in a fascinating way that makes use of small, slow changes, tiny inflections. It's a kind of kinetic art, though one in which the viewer moves but the object (unlike, say, the vanes and wires of a Calder) does...
...shaving. Shaving belongs to the world of What You Normally Have to Do, like putting on a tie, and being on time for stupefying meetings, and keeping up with the e-mail, and crisscrossing the United States trying to sell yourself, month after month, year after year, to a blur of American voters...