Word: disconnectedness
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Billion Dollar Brain by Ken Russell. Billion Dollar Brain is a provocative film, inventive and intelligent. In a period marked increasingly by acceptance of lack of craft (witness the reception of Mike Nichols' mediocre The Graduate), Billion Dollar Brain stands out as a low-level case-book of cinematic efficiency...
The production by the Boston ballet was remodeled by Virginia Williams. Too often the result is painfully disconnected, sliding over the more intense moments in the score with a frivolous pat-de-chat and dwelling on the lighter moments in a tight pirouette. This was especially true in the dance...
"A Cup of Tea." Exercising the captain's prerogative, Dr. Christiaan Barnard moved into the first operating room and cut eight blood vessels to free Denise Darvall's heart; then he severed it from its ligament moorings. It was disconnected from the pump, and was carried to Washkansky...
Inside Bach. If any message surfaces from Columbia's far-out stockpile, it is simply that today's musical world spins through healthy confusion. While some composers have chosen to cut themselves off from the familiar sounds of instruments in favor of microphones and amplifiers, others-Lukas Foss...
The answer, I think, is yes, and I think Graubard would agree. There is a strong tendency in modern social science to view the existing order as an historically necessary and unalterable development. Experience is divided into a number of disconnected special areas--law, economics, international relations--and each area...