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...twelve paintings are arranged in a narrative sequence, reading from left to right, that engulfs the viewer in a virtually full circle. In eight of the panels, the canvas is filled like the sea, with varying washes of aqua and occupied with skeletal and archaic linear motifs of ships that are often obscured by explosions of saturated and fiery color. The exploding forms that litter these canvases surge with textured layers of gold, yellow, orange, magenta, crimson and deep purple that seem to leak and drip like rivulets of blood trickling down the painting’s surface. Many...
...Swedish Pippi Longstocking films and his best-known English-language features - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat - all began as books. He can't explain why so much of his work has been book-based but says he likes material "that isn't linear, that goes with characters...
However, nothing is as blissfully easy as announcing that all things improve, in time. “I don’t think the incorporation of women into the Harvard faculty is a simple linear process,” says Skocpol. Ethan Y. Yeh ’03, a leader of the movement for an ethnic studies department, sees minority Faculty increasing at a snail’s pace because the administration isn’t faced with any serious incentive to change...
During the 1930s, many American architects were heavily influenced by European designs, especially those of the Bauhaus movement. Domestic architecture reflected this influence, and the flat, linear houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, notably Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa., and Walter Gropius’ residence in Lincoln, Mass. are perhaps the best examples of this style. Both houses were built contemporaneously with Windshield, and the three houses use much of the same structural vocabulary, due in part to the fact that Neutra, an Austrian emigré, worked under Wright during the 1920s...
...This war has so many strands and there are so many things going on at once, it defies more linear mediums like print and television. The web is infinite in its depth and its breadth. You can find whatever strand you're looking for when you need it. You don't have to page through a paper, or channel surf hoping that you'll find that piece on Taliban moderates...