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...said, one shouldn't romanticize the past. And a closing thought: If Marty, the lovelorn butcher from Chayefsky's teleplay, and his best friend Angie were to fall through a tear in the space-time continuum and wind up in 1995, they wouldn't have to run through their memorably aimless conversation: "What do you feel like doing tonight?" "I don't know, what do you feel like doing?" Today they'd just turn on The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or NYPD Blue and enjoy the best that contemporary American entertainment has to offer. What they would make of Dennis...
...quite unlike the fits and starts by which most artists develop. By degrees, in 1911-12, the interweaving of Mondrian's fruit trees ceases to look like energetic lacework on a plain ground; the space between the branches is energized--it presses forward, no longer a void but a continuum of shape as active as the branches themselves...
...lengthy monologue about his attempts to win greater respect for the craft of portering. Since a later detail suggests that Ryder's room is on the second floor, the elevator must move with the speed of a glacier. But events here seem to occur outside the space-time continuum, and they grow quickly more preposterous...
...continuum. That is, as more multimedia titles come out, as more information is online, as we make these things easier to use, we start to draw in more and more people. Now, once you get in for one application, the hurdle to learn a second one is fairly low. My dad wanted to do his taxes automatically. Then I got him doing word processing and now electronic mail because everybody in our family is connected...
...movie that started an hour ago. The ragged threads go back to the beginning, the violent underweave of the story. Visit 1886, say, during the birth of American organized labor: Chicago, Haymarket Square, riots, a bomb, seven cops dead. There is such a thing as a continuum of small apocalypses, a kind of tradition...