Mr. Glasper's way has to do with both looseness and intricacy: a loose frame and intricate, slip-and-slide languages of harmony and especially rhythm, built up through years of experimenting with a steady crew.
There's a loose frame on everything: songs dissolve into background noise or conversations.
Yet, in his dialectic of representation and abstraction, Kubrick missed out on another crucial kind of cinematic modernism — the loose, frame-breaking, reflexive kind.
But with his tall, loose frame he looked as if somebody had knitted him together, and his ears sat out too far from his head.
There are five of these parts and, as in The Savage Detectives, the first and last ones provide a loose frame narrative.
Cracked chimney masonry, separating roof shingles, deteriorating sundeck flashing, or the cracked, loose frame of a door or window — all those are potential inroads for mold.
Yet, in his dialectic of representation and abstraction, Kubrick missed out on another crucial kind of cinematic modernism the loose, frame-breaking, reflexive kind.
This plot is the loose frame for a sprawling story that encompasses the destinies of many different X-Men, including that of Jean Grey, the only X-Person who does not have a campy, Gladiator-ish handle.
Both have used the loose frame of genre to write enduringly and resonantly about the dark side of the California dream.
Still, the result of this discursive approach is an abundance of good things nestling within a looser frame.
