His tremendous powers of distillation require, in return, a bit of extrapolation.
I don't think that anymore; we've learned the perils of extrapolation.
Young Marco's feats of extrapolation -- Tom Sawyer would have called them "stretchers" -- are also subversions of parental authority that must be kept secret.
It is a daring act of extrapolation, and a real departure from most movie-making, which can handle only one universe at a time.
But this analysis relies on a lot of extrapolation (for instance, from gnomic diary entries), and doesn't really illuminate his prolific output.
The result can be a suffocating narcissism, a lack of interest in the kind of extrapolation and exploration that is necessary to both mathematics and literature.
But it's a text that knows it will be read by us and that its eloquent silences will beg questions that rabbis, writers, readers, film-makers, all being human, will dive into in search of extrapolation.
Still it takes a fair amount of extrapolation to come up with any kind of cogent summary, and it is probably significant that Ms. Smith felt it necessary to announce the show's theme in the opening moments.
Actually, though, as Schlosser explains in his notes, he extrapolated his figures from an annual total in a report on food-related illness, which itself relied on a good deal of extrapolation.
For instance, Mayweather fought at welterweight (a hundred and forty-seven pounds) only a dozen times, which meant that figuring out how good he really was required a great deal of extrapolation.
Godard's films of the sixties are made to be interpreted; they're produced as collections of fragments meant to be picked apart and reassembled, filled with extravagant ranges of references, and in desperate need of extrapolation and intuition.
