Word: linearized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Great Beyond are highly personal. In making Defending Your Life, a sophisticated satire about Judgment Day, director Albert Brooks was inspired by the death of his father when the director was 11 years old. Unpersuaded that the dead return to earth, Brooks puts his main characters on a linear trajectory into the unknown. Brooks is moved by the 20 letters a week he receives from dying people uplifted by the film. "It's not a hospice cocktail," he quips, "but close...
Television news, when it flies in raw and ragged, can be lacerating. The medium destroys sequence. Reading restores to the mind a stabilization of linear prose, a bit of the architecture of thought. First one sentence, then another, building paragraphs, whole pages, chapters, books, until eventually something like an attention span returns and perhaps a steadier regard for cause and effect. War (and television) shatters. Reading, thought reconstruct. The mind in reading is active, not passive-depressive...
...until last week that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored the men who first detected the existence of quarks. Americans Jerome Friedman, 60, and Henry Kendall, 63, of M.I.T., and Richard Taylor, 60, a Canadian working at Stanford, share the physics award for discoveries made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in the late 1960s...
...size of the subject virtually ensures that the kind of narrative Gopnik and Varnedoe present works better in the catalog than on the walls. In fact, it is hard to see how any museum installation -- linear and one-track by + nature -- could convey a real sense of the peculiar eddies of cultural flux and reflux that they have set out to describe. Abstract Expressionism, for instance, tended to set itself above popular culture -- yet one of its true icons, De Kooning's 1950 study for Woman, had a smile cut from an ad for Camel cigarettes. The work does...
...young painter to appear on the scene, in Europe or elsewhere, during the last 25 years." His influence was wide. Those cakes of thick pigment, those creamy, generous brushstrokes inlaid like rough marquetry over their contrasting grounds, struck many artists in the 1950s as a viable alternative to the linear, quasi-geometric abstraction that had grown out of the cubist grid. But though De Stael had a healthy effect on two or three major artists, especially the English painter Frank Auerbach, most of his imitators were insipid, and their weakness reflected on De Stael's own reputation...