Word: linearized
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...forms of Chassler's work take on qualities similar to its characteristics of movement. Energy is parcelled out into long stretches, each followed by short rests during which the dancer returns to a state of neutral energy, gathering again the threads of the sustaining image. The work is extremely linear, a soliloquy, like the prose poem Chassler recites...
This was not a simple process, and one would caricature Constable's achievement by treating it as a linear journey from style to reality. What he knew of art constantly modified what he saw in nature. But the balance he struck between these terms, in his fin est paintings, was quite new. Only the gentleness of the subjects - those mellow distances which, a century and a half later, seem like the never-never land of Arcady - veils it from us. It amounted to a prediction of impressionism, 40 years ahead. It was an attempt, as Constable...
Transformation implies time. Monk works with the notion that all ages of the individual are within reach. Her time is not the linear time of narrative, although two "narrators" do appear with banners to title several sections. It's the time of dreams, its only logic being sequence. Events are condensed and distorted, displaced from their familiar contexts...
Developments have not been linear; there are fewer newspapers today than there were 50 years ago, and new forms threaten older ones. The staggering audiences for mass communications have access to paperback books, Xerox copies, photography, films and a variety of other forms. Millions of Americans watch or hear the news at least three times a day-before work, at dinnertime and before sleep. Commercials, discussion shows, documentaries all provide further information...
...worked when they tried the same experiment at Yale two years ago," Leahy said. "Here we based our estimates on a theorctical, linear mode, and we found the practical realities were different...