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Truth was in line, not in color or tone. Some of Blake's most acrid denunciations were reserved for Rembrandt and Rubens, in whose "dark caverns" and "hellish brownness" the true lessons of Raphael and Michelangelo were, in his opinion, lost. His own images were overwhelmingly linear, his style based on outline and infill. The line recalls its 16th century sources in mannerist engravings (Blake never crossed the channel, and so had to depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung...
...basic plot. But this triumphant movie, the first internationally acclaimed Taviani brothers film, can be approached on two other levels--one structural, the other more stylistic. In one sense, Padre, Padrone develops within a movie-as-book format; based on Ledda's autobiography, the film's three-part, linear structure reminds one of a novel chronologically tracing the ascent of its protagonist. Indeed, the script's crisp, taut dialogues often resemble the verbal sparseness of some contemporary fiction...
...Doctors must learn that the life process shows a gradual linear decline from age 30 onwards and that a 30-year-old having a heart attack must be treated differently than a very old person having a heart attack," said Rowe...
...stormy-weather warnings by questioning the validity of science and knowledge as our society conceives it. The modern notion of causality, Toffler proferred, may be nothing more than an unprovable idea that would quite predictably emanate from any highly industrial, interdependent society victimized by a time fetish. The linear consumption of time--which gave rise to society's belief in causality--is just the type of idea one would expect a society run by clocks to adopt. Modern society, Toffler contends, is quite narrow-minded in its insistence that every cause have an effect. And being the cocky, obstinate creatures...
What does all of this mean? Nothing really, save for the fact that it is at least mildly depressing for the seniors on this year's team to realize that the football program has taken a linear equation-like dip during their time in Cambridge...