Word: linearized
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Levine works only from photographs-"I would be embarrassed to sit in [front of someone and make fun of him"-| and employs superb, old-fashioned draftsmanship to put character before comedy. "I try first to make a face believable," he says, "to give another dimension to a flat, linear drawing. Then my distortions seem more acceptable." While Levine often wields his pen as a poisoned dart, he thinks that there are definite limits to his art. "I might wish to be critical," he admits, "but I don't wish to be destructive. Caricature that goes too far simply lowers...
...city has had no Dickens; it does not have one here. It has defied attempts to capture it entirely: writers have taken it on, got lost in its complexities, returned advance money. How can anything linear be made of sprawl, dirty air, glitz, wealth, power, celebrities, a Noah's ark of immigrants, real estate gone mad, earthquakes, brushfires, mud slides, avalanches, floods, a million or so illegal aliens, freeways, enslavement to the automobile, drive-in churches, Disneyland, outrageous poverty, oil, the Pacific Rim, living on the fault line, heart-stopping geographical beauty, to name but a few ingredients...
Labeling the lack of money "a pervasive problem." Princeton physics professor Val Fitch says that the lack of funds "simply means a slower pace for research. It's a linear relationship...
...seems in the proper order of things that the Boston Celtics are champions and the Los Angeles Lakers runners-up, a feeling yet persists that the Lakers are the better basketball players, while the Celtics' virtues extend beyond the sport's linear boundaries, just out of Magic Johnson's range at 24, no longer within Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's reach...
...world out of balance, where men are taught to value toughness and linear vision as masculine traits that enable them to think strategically from conquest to conquest, from campaign to campaign without looking back, without getting sidetracked by vulnerable feelings, there is, and will be, an emotional difference between the sexes, a gender gap that may even appear on a Gallup poll...