Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heads scattered on the ground of the canvas, with no gore but a lot of implied anxiety. Most of them started from small doodles, envelope-size, and the large paintings retain the cryptic and improvised look of drawings; in fact, since so much of Rothenberg's work is about linear figure and ground, it is hard to say where drawing leaves off and painting begins: for her, a drawing is something on paper, a painting something on canvas, and that's that. Her charcoal drawings, done with a fiercely scrubbed, hairy line that broadens out into areas of velvety black...
...Finn is a wonderfully brilliant guy, but completely disorganized. He dosen't have a linear mind, but he did have certain characters. So I said, 'Let's give them a kid. And we have to have a plot here, Bill...why don't we have the wife hook up with the psychiatrist...
...mysterious "wormhole" -- a sort of magic tunnel through which space travelers can zip to distant galaxies. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is one series that isn't afraid of abstract theoretical concepts. In the show's premiere episode, Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) tried to explain the nature of linear time, the idea that the past influences the future. "That is the essence of linear existence," he said. "Each day affects the next...
...version of linear existence: each hit show affects the next. Star Trek, the old NBC show and movie series, led inevitably to Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the top-rated syndicated series on TV. That show has in turn spawned Deep Space Nine, whose two-hour premiere this month drew a whopping 21 rating, higher than any other syndicated-series episode in history. And now a whole fleet of hour-long action shows is buzzing into prime time, in an effort to satisfy the audience's appetite for shoot-'em-up (and beam-'em-up) adventure. Network executives...
...surprise about Malcolm X is how ordinary it is. The film is a lavish, linear, way-too-long (3 hr. 21 min.) storybook of Malcolm's career, the movie equivalent of an authorized biography, a cautious primer for black pride. It is Lee's biggest film, and the least Spikey. At one point in producer Marvin Worth's 26-year hajj to get this movie made, and before he was persuaded that an African American should direct the movie, Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story) wanted to do it. If Jewison had, the product would be about the same. Only...