Word: serializing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...writer, such fame was unprecedented then, and has been unimaginable since. Not just fame, either, but ardor and devotion. In The World of Charles Dickens, English Novelist Angus Wilson suggests that Dickens, publishing most of his works in serial form, achieved the same intimate, regular contact with his audience as Scheherazade in his childhood favorite, The Arabian Nights. Dickens kept telling another tale. Jokes and fantasies, social and political critiques, plummy visions of Christmas swept from his pen. He even wrote a front-page article in his own magazine, Household Words, to explain and justify the breaking...
...Riley's paintings are nearly always made of such a formal unit-dot or stripe or ellipse-repeated and multiplied with tiny changes of position, tone or color. Through repetition, the force builds up. Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one flash. The serial changes (which may be no more than the slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that...
...husband is left to reflect on her not as a woman he loved without tenderness but as a natural element that he needed for his own survival. And the reader is left to reflect too. About the emptiness and boredom that addicts some people to the idea of leading serial lives, about the consumer culture that feeds the idea with fantasies, and about the society that provides the opportunities to realize those fantasies -for better or worse...
...movie audiences. But what about the other 44%? Isn't their money just as good as the kids'? Better, declare the makers of A Walk in the Spring Rain. And so they have produced a menopausal melodrama reminiscent of an old Ladies' Home Journal serial. All that is missing are three staples and a recipe for lemon chiffon...
...Wagner of the genre. Since The Case of the Velvet Claws, the first of his Perry Mason mysteries, was published in 1933, his books have been bestsellers all over the world. Millions have come to know the portly defense counselor from the television serial. As far off as Saudi Arabia, Perry Mason reruns have the population wondering about the advantages of the jury system over King Feisal's rigid religious courts...