Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wary of packaged news, linear-plotted entertainment and happy endings. "Xers prefer to get their information unembellished," says Yankelovich's Smith. The hit TV show X-Files weaves in layered story lines and leaves questions unresolved. In MTV News Unfiltered, viewers call in story ideas and the network sends out video cameras for them to record their own segments. On last month's show, South Carolina's underground tattoo artists told of their efforts to legalize the practice of body art, and a 16-year-old Oregonian recounted her hard life as a single mother. "Generation X actively pursues...
...then again, Oppenheimer lives in a different world. It is a fantastical, non-linear universe where he is in complete control of images and ideas that, above all, move fast...
Conversation with Oppenheimer, like his film, centers around images and ideas that are rarely constrained by linear time...
...anything, "Sling Blade" spreads the wealth so broadly over so many characters and events that the dramatic focus meanders. A little Tarantino-style, non-linear narration might have added some tension, but then again, Karl's story should be as steady and straightforward...
Elsewhere in television the question was raised as to whether linear structure itself mattered. A much sought-after consultant, Douglas Rushkoff, advised television executives that the programming of the future would consist of "predeconstructed" shows like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation...