Word: continuum
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...before him stretched an endless, bleak expanse of weeks abruptly and unnaturally empty. He imagined all the stadiums padlocked, their sweet geometries of green so still that one could hear the Astroturf growing. The lazy summer inevitability that has always been one of baseball's charms (the continuum of it, the meticulous formality of its records, the lovely mythic accessibility of the sport's past to its present) now grew disheveled. Local TV stations ran ancient episodes of Gomer Pyle instead of ball games. Somewhere in a high-rise Manhattan hotel, Mammon and the Grinch negotiated free-agent...
...effect, Lichtenstein's show invites us to have the cake and eat it too-to see his work as part of a "heroic" historical continuum while deriding the cliches to which that continuum has been worn down. But this cannot divert the suspicion that, for all his manifest abilities as wit and designer, his art has become repetitious. -By Robert Hughes
...WODEHOUSE by David A. Jasen Continuum; 298 pages...
...what science can achieve have become clearer and more frightening. Harvard's Daniel Bell has pointed out that most of America's early inventors-Eli Whitney, Edison, the Wright brothers- were tinkerers with tunnel vision. They could afford to be; life was not seen as a continuum in those days. Today's inventors must be true scientists, responsible to the public health as well as to the private muse. The country has grown wary of innovation, of simply doing things because they are possible. Indeed, some people will regard the good ship Columbia with squinting eyes...
...before another sneaks in. He perfects his delivery on "One to One". The ballad begins with a single organ chord, grows into a piano piece on loss of individuality, and recedes to its original chord. Thus, without breaking his train of musical thought, Jackson draws us into his musical continuum...