Word: continuums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STIAWOL. Stee-ah-wol. Star Trek Is A Way Of Life. It was a television program that boldy went where no T.V. program had gone before: into a bizarre space-time continuum that social scientists termed a subculture, style writers called a fad, pop-culture analysts hailed as a phenomenon, and Time Magazine, in its wisdom, dismissed as a "cult vogue of the half-educated...
...characteristic cubist tonal flicker-and engulfing in their sheer size. If cubism was the art of hypothesis, Still would contradict it with an art of crushing visual fact. In doing so he hoped to make a clean leap out of modernist history into images "not proven by a continuum," as he wrote to a friend in 1950: "I am myself-not just the sum of my ancestors, and I know myself best by my gestures, meanings...not through a study of my family tree." To a great extent he succeeded. Virtually no modernist paintings done before 1945 look like...
...coincidence of the Radcliffe centennial celebrations producing many grants for innovative Radcliffe women, Black Star has set itself up as a theater group for social change. It has no party line, no master plan. According to Nancy Krieger, one of the co-founders, it wants only to provide a continuum for people who want to do theater with a social/political/feminist message, and are interested in interaction with the audience, interaction with the audience...
...major school of Christmas gift giving holds that it is not the thought that counts, it's the cost of a gift multiplied by its value on the Total Uselessness Continuum (TUC) which determines its success as a crowd pleaser. For example, if your giftee does not own any sort of boat and lives in Central lowa, you can given him or her a brass ship's wheel which costs about $550 in the Quincy market. On a Total Uselessness scale from 1 (relatively useful), to 10 (no earthly reason why anyone would need this object), a ship's wheel...
...even the shape of the dance's impulse is that of subjective emotional experience; the rhythm moves as a seamless whole, each suspended pose not a break but a pulse-point, the peak of the wing-beat of a soaring bird. The realm of personal feeling is a continuum, and so are these forms: the body lines smoothed clean into curves, all weight belied by the tracery of pointe-work, every arabesque hovering at the edge of flight...