Word: flatness
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...book—“The Nearest Thing To Life”—would have been in keeping with his lecture’s primary topic, the creation of vivid and effective characters in writing. Arguing against E.M. Forster’s distinction between flat and rounded characters, Wood said that both readers and writers should be concerned with the human vividness and mystery of fictional characters, rather than understanding the intimate details of their lives. “I think we’re too pious about this business of creating character,” Wood...
...yard field goal from Ben Bologna to make the score 20-17 in Princeton’s favor.The Crimson responded immediately, reaching its own 46 before facing 4th-and-1. After a timeout, senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti connected with senior tight end Jason Miller in the flat, and Miller rumbled for 13 yards and a crucial first down.“We didn’t feel like there were any guarantees we were going to get the ball back, and we just had to have a play,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...
...Sean Penn is a major disappointment and only appears on screen for five minutes—which is just long enough for him to get shot, roll down a hill, and be shot again. De Niro’s acting, which normally dominates the screen with its intensity, is flat and lackluster. He seems to want his character to be stony and cold, but instead comes off as indifferent and detached. Perhaps De Niro has just made one too many movies; he seriously looks like he needs a break. Levinson, who won the Oscar for best director...
...firm could bet on, including the toxic mortgage-backed securities that led the way into this crisis. On Main Street, it meant borrowing to buy a house or a condo - maybe two - then perhaps borrowing again off the increasing value of that property to pay for something else: a flat-screen TV, a new set of golf clubs, your daughter's braces...
Polluters such as coal power plants and automobiles have shouldered the brunt of the attention on climate change. It helps that you can actually see them spewing black exhaust. But people often forget that when they plug in their home electronics - whether it's a jumbo flat-screen TV or an iPod - the electricity that juices those devices has a carbon footprint too. As the amount of electronics in our homes continues to increase - half of American households now own three TVs, up from 11% in 1975 - it becomes more and more important that they are energy efficient. Ditto...