This crisis, the movie suggests, goes beyond the personal to the over-all notion of progress and its conflict with power.
The end point of all this progress, of course, is the sitcom "Will and Grace," which White said killed gay literature.
This miraculous array of new information sources and analytic tools arrived on the scene with all the luster of progress.
And it well suits Mr. Colbert's opposition to all forms of progress.
Because being out, drinking more, socialising at work are all part of progress.
Involving Grade is one, potentially smart way of getting things moving before the long grass chokes all hope of progress.
All varieties of progress, in Ackroyd's view, are welcome, each a new stage in the river's sinuous evolution.
A typical Clarkean coda adds that, in spite of Howard's law-and-order populism destroying all hope of progress, the two of them "as ever, remained friends".
This will probably be an area of small growth, where only the passionate participate, but all kinds of progress is made.
All that being said, Mr. Naftzger added, if some solution to the carp problem cannot be found, all sorts of progress could eventually be at risk.
"It's all part of progress," Ms. Richardson, 51, said, "but sometimes when things get out of control it can become overwhelming, and then it's not pretty anymore".
