Word: non-linear
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Despite the play’s non-linear plot progression peppered with flashbacks, internal monologues, and scene changes between the island and the outside world, the actors’ superb abilities to transition between scenes keep the show cohesive and imbued with forward-momentum...
...released “(500) Days of Summer.” The movie, a fluffy Joseph Gordon-Levitt vehicle, takes off from an interesting premise: A pretty female protagonist rejects the labels of a straightforward relationship. For all its pretenses at innovation in the form of jump-cuts and non-linear narrative, though, the final product makes no attempt at exploring the motivations behind that stance at all. The inner struggles through which the main character, or women like Bruni, must have suffered to achieve their levels of self-assuredness remain opaque; the movie in which Bruni?...
Utilizing both flashbacks and a non-linear narrative style, Roth and DeNiro have turned what would normally be an everyday thriller, into a psychological exploration of war and peace. And while the script is top-notch, the acting reinforces the strength of the film...
...Very real. Not everything is pleasant in their lives.” The play was written by Christopher F. Durang ’71—who won the Harvard Arts Medal this past spring—and is made up of 33 short vignettes. Robinson says of the non-linear scene structure that “it’s like the way we remember life.” Bette and Boo’s marriage ceremony begins the play, but as the plot progresses, their relationship quickly deteriorates. But as actor Josh C. Phillips...
...graduate student and then as a postdoctoral research fellow, Armstrong worked in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance and nonlinear optics. His post-doctoral adviser was Nicolaas Bloembergen, who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics for a paper co-authored by Armstrong on laser spectroscopy and non-linear optics...