Forgoing the traditional demands of plot and psychology, they instead treat their supposed subject as a text, an organizing principle or a defining absence.
"He had a heart, an organizing principle, he gave it integrity," said Rose Cory, 53, a performance artist who has lived at the Chelsea for 25 years.
I will say, however, that a period of time can be as useful an organizing principle for a writer as a piece of real estate.
It's really an organizing principle, a way of bringing disparate things together that spans the arts and sciences".
Impatience is a virtue, and an organizing principle, for Deerhoof, the San Francisco band that headlined at Irving Plaza on Friday night.
Larkum, M. A cellular mechanism for cortical associations: an organizing principle for the cerebral cortex.
Chowder is available at virtually every restaurant and seafood stand on the island, and thus provides an organizing principle for a food-driven journey.
Ziegelman uses the address as an organizing principle and a point of departure into the food cultures and food histories of its tenants.
Ultimately, location becomes persuasive as both an organizing principle and a potential revenue stream down the line, according to Yik Yak's founders.
The latest edition, "Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986" ($44.99), out this week, also has an organizing principle, albeit a much broader one.
We'd never have known the "war on terror" as an organizing principle of an entire presidential administration.
