Having drummed with every great bopper in the late forties and early fifties (and provided a decisive kick to Thelonious Monk's first recordings under his own name), Blakey sensed that the harmonic complexities of the manner threatened soloists with a hectic, computer-like reactivity, and stripped the music down to more elemental, blues-based strains.
"The Spiderwick Chronicles" is frantic with incident and hectic with computer-generated effects, including buckets of special Nickelodeon-style slime for the gooey green goblin blood.
As if anxiously aware of its own pointlessness, Des McAnuff's hectic blend of computer animation and live action raises this question obsessively, hoping to distract a credulous audience with knowing showbiz parody.
In four hectic weeks last spring, Mr. Kent wrote a computer program that the consortium's leaders hadn't realized how much they needed, one that assembles the 400,000 fragments of DNA they had decoded into a coherent sequence.
Through a hectic couple of hours at my home computer, I was able to put a final version of the obit together, and send it to the A.P. It was the third time I've done this recently.
Ms. Smyth, 25, the lead coordinator at Salomon Smith Barney, has copies of the annual financial reports of the seven agencies among the computers on her desk in a hectic trading floor.
Mr. Lawrence, who previously directed the hectic, obnoxious "Constantine" and many music videos, uses elaborate, computer-assisted means to create simple, striking effects.
A black-and-white series, begun in 1992, deploys hectic designs created with primitive drawing software on a Texas Instruments computer; it made him the first significant artist to exploit, and incidentally to burlesque, the emergent lingua franca of computer graphics.
But in the age of the Internet, in a hectic holiday season, there is another straight-from-the-farm option: sitting at your computer and dialing up a tree.
As do hectic, high-sensory situations, mean people and the electric buzz of lights and computers.
As Virtual Reality immerses users in a computer-generated environment, and as such allows them to escape the hectic mall environment, its use is expected to result in a more positive consumer experience.
