And history, always more than an academic subject, becomes for the audience a collapsing of time.
At the end of Claudio Abbado's performance of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, what I experienced – along with thousands of others in the hall, and thousands more listening on Radio 3 – felt like a vision of infinity, a collapsing of time and space into a single point of brilliance and intensity.
Greenaway's "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" infused the medium with the multi-dimensional injection of kundalini viscerally collapsing of time and space into a bold vision of the cyclical life/death/rebirth journey resurrecting the great Russian filmmaker.
The company has been buying and passing on worthless packages of mortgages, and it is on the brink of the biggest bank collapse of all time.
It was the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Railroad in 1970 -- the largest corporate collapse of its time, as shocking then as Enron's collapse is today -- that moved Congress to act.
It was also the decade which saw the biggest banking collapse of all time at Bank of England regulated Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI); the death of Robert Maxwell on November 5 1990 and the subsequent collapse of his financial empire dragging the lives of pensioners in the Mirror Group overboard with him and and the failure of the City's most blue-blooded investment bank Barings.
The collapse of linear time made for a leap into sacred marriage as a cross-section of the vertical/hierarchical and the horizontal horizon.
And by winning the Super Bowl in a dramatic fashion, they also avoided going down in history as owners of the biggest Super Bowl collapse of all time (the record for the biggest blown lead remains at 10 points).
Quantum entanglement necessitates the collapse of linear time, bringing forth the serendipity and magic of the cyclical, a narrative that Wenders explored......directly through dance in his first venture into 3-D with "Pina", in the retrospective.
