Word: formlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuesday, the fourth day of the war, the Chinese advance resumed with a vengeance. A seemingly formless front rapidly developed two main, logical prongs of attack: one in the northwest on the railroad line leading south to Hanoi, the other in the the east on the major rail link that parallels Highway 1, the jugular thoroughfare from Friendship Pass. Both thrusts appeared to aim directly at Viet Nam's capital. At the same time, an auxiliary Chinese force, spearhead units of an estimated three more divisions, probed toward the coast for a possible end run aimed at cutting off Highway...
...aircars were made to look so hard-edged, so real and on occasion so dented and dirty that audiences felt they could reach out and touch them. In Close Encounters, the flying saucers, the giant mother ship and the extraterrestrial creatures are meant to look alien and so formless that the imagination is forced to fill in the details. "We went for a style that is nebulous but with brilliant light," explains Special Effects Chief Douglas Trumbull, who also created the effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. "In a way, it's going back to the old radio...
...began to compile their book about a year after returning to the United States. They never kept diaries, but simply recollected their own"individual stories for the book. As a result, this book sometimes suffers from a lack of coherence. At times, it seems to wander on like a formless series of recollections, with only arbitrary divisions between paragraphs and chapters. In this sense, An American Family in Moscow is not a book at all, but rather a loosely joined series of memoirs...
...felt the water temperature and temporarily decided against entering the pool. And when his friends invited him into the water, Luis would sputter, "no way," "no chance," and "you guys are sick." Eventually, he did go in, entering on a completely formless dive...
...strain of obscurity in fiction in the United States. The critics, academic mandarins in Bretnor's terms, have advanced the concepts of obscurity so that they alone could interpret fiction and poetry, and in turn fatten their paychecks with their reviews. Through the critics, Bretnor contends. American poetry became "formless, unreadable and unintelligible," and the short story was "devitalized into the non-story." With science fiction reaching the college campuses, Bretnor writes...