Word: nonlinearity
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Earthquakes, it turns out, have a lot in common with tornadoes: they are capricious beasts ruled by what physicists refer to as nonlinear dynamics, which means precise forecasting of when and where they will occur is impossible. In theory, major earthquakes should be preceded by smaller shocks. They are, but the earliest foreshocks may be so weak as to be hard to distinguish from background seismic ``noise.'' And for every small tremor that is followed by a big quake, others may not be followed by anything much...
...form works because our memories do replay moments from our pasts like a film; rarely do they occur to us in sequential order. Director Wayne Wang weaves the nonlinear script together exquisitely, and we recognize the influence of producer Oliver Stone in sweeping shots of landscape and lavish depictions of the costumes of upper-class, old-world China...
...Kate do appear briefly, but the novelist indulged in a "ceremony of star behavior" and left town. So Godard vamped. He hired Burgess Meredith to play a gang-lord Lear (with many Mailer intonations) and Molly Ringwald as Cordelia. And he turned the film into a cynical, pun-laden, nonlinear meditation on virtue vs. power...
...soul that conceived All My Sons, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, The Price and The American Clock. Yet for all the cut and thrust of action and emotion, there is something ruminative, at times woolly, about Timebends. The title seems to have been chosen to reflect its nonlinear, outwardly random structure, which in turn is apparently meant to evoke "time's fade-outs and fade-ins and cross-fades." His first words describe watching his mother's feet and ankles as he lay in infancy on the floor. Colorfully sketched relations come and go, their idiosyncratic histories often...
...These are people who grew up with television," he says, "who learned to do their homework, listen to the radio and watch television all at the same time. For these people, we needed to create a form that was nonlinear, using mood and emotion to create an atmosphere...