Word: formlessness
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...Bill Kreutzmann, in spite of his technical skill, is unable to fashion a solo with enough continuity and development to hold the listener's attention. Without Constanten's classically-influenced keyboard work to give the number structure, the remaining instrumental portion of the song degenerates into a rather aimless, formless guitar exhibition by Garcia and Weir...
...produced a bright spot on the film. But if the crests of one wave lined up with the troughs of another, the waves tended to cancel each other out and barely registered on the film. The result was a hologram, a pattern of light and dark spots that while formless to the eye, encoded all the characteristics of the object. When Gabor shined the same single-frequency light through the film, the result was a three-dimensional image of the object...
...years' duration) is over. Dennis Hopper has blown it. His directorial debut may have been adolescent; his second movie is puerile. Formless, artless, it is narcissistic but not introspective, psycho but not analytic-a shotgun wedding of R.D. Laing and the Late Show. Its basic idea is not unsound: a movie company shoots a western in the Andes; when it leaves, the peasants mimic the staged violence but cannot separate reality from fantasy...
PERHAPS a novel should not be judged solely on the basis of an ideological critique, so it is worth noting that this book is dreadfully lacking in style, too. Flood apologizes halfway through the book: "How do you write a beautifully constructed book about a completely formless situation?" Flood never answers that question, which might be excused if it demonstrated a purpose in the novel-showing that the war was indeed formless-but Flood's picture of the war is so incomplete that any conclusion would be laughable...
...many stories, the neat ironies, the tiny vertebrae give way to something more formless, confusion without any supportive skeleton. In "Convalescing," a man traumatized by a car accident tries to understand his wife...