Word: linearities
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...brought the project to Universal. Wes Craven, who ended up directing it, is a very thoughtful man. But he just made another horror film. It was very discouraging. Something that you should really ask me is how does one get here. Students are fed this lie that life is linear and that you have to go through all the letters in order to get to the end of the alphabet. Life is totally serendipitous. It’s made up of wonderful moments when crossroads meet in front of you and you have to find a way to follow your...
...Alan was a very intelligent and very productive colleague,” Markowitz said. “I have great respect for him.”Manne’s modus operandi throughout his professional work was to create long-term, complex economic models. These models relied heavily on linear programming, a subset of mathematics, to determine optimal decision-making in a world of scarce resources. He modeled, for example, how oil shortages would affect both the world as a whole and individual economies 100 years into the future. His models are still used today.Although his early models were primarily...
...studied on a Fulbright scholarship in Italy. When that was widely imitated, he shifted to what might be called silhouetch, with shadows reverberating outward and often colored with brilliantly acidic hues. Of late, with silhouetch being copied in scores of advertisements, Glaser has been bearing down in the clean linear style seen in his ebullient Big Nudes, designed for an exhibit at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts. "The funda mental problem," he says prosaically, "is like the clothing business. You have to know what's happening to respond, to understand what forms mean at a given point...
...responsibility for his actions runs through your blood." Eventually, Eshun comes to accept his past - and the contradictions he has struggled with in both England and Ghana. He draws invisible circles on a table for emphasis. "You realize that things don't have to have a kind of linear progression, things don't have to have a happy ending, they can just have a question mark. And that's O.K. ? It frees you up a little bit." He pauses, laughs: "I walk lighter...
...linear regression completed recently by the Committee on Advising and Counseling showed a direct negative correlation between the quality of advising and the number of students in the concentration, says Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien, who aso sits on the committee on advising and counseling...