Life continuing could not fold away what had happened, but it offered something, blurring the drama of death's immediacy.
For the writer William Boyd, Chekhov's breakthrough was to abandon what William Gerhardie called the "event plot" for something more "blurred, interrupted, mauled or otherwise tampered with by life".
But" — he frowned, squinted, as if something were blurring the bliss he envisioned — "wherever the house is, it has to have a fence.
"We're in a moment where not enough artists are trying to do something that blurs the lines between what they traditionally do and the new, and frankly it's mostly because they don't have the opportunity," said Eddy Moretti, an executive producer and the executive creator director of Vice and the Creators Project, at the company's lairlike offices in Brooklyn.
Now, the line is increasingly blurred, something that's partly down to his slide into arch inscrutability whenever he's quizzed on the subject.
The DP1 also easily delivers that special pro effect where the subject is in sharp focus, but the background is softly blurred — something most pocket consumer cams can't manage.
Not only do they reduce actions to black and white binary narratives, but notice the zebra is also blurred — something the media like to do with the truth about Taylor and Calvin's life, am I right guys? Thirdly, this giraffe is played by Harry Styles.
And I sense that is something that has got blurred in recent years".
The only one she can find shows Araceli in the background, her figure dim and blurred, suggesting "something furtive about its subject, as if she were already in flight when it was taken".
"It was one of those scenes in the movies where the doctor says something and you blur out everything else.
