Kelman has always enjoyed confounding middle-class readers, denying them the neat plot trajectories, orchestrated dramas and psychologically streamlined characters he believes they expect.
But despite a media blitz that included two years of editorials in the New York Times, the Postville raid's Streamline character was portrayed as a brief aberration rather than the enforcement standard it had been -- long before Postville and now long since.
Until now, there was always a sense that Martin's plots were improved somehow in translation to the screen: stories were streamlined, unnecessary characters removed.
The book is streamlined, the characters stripped of all superfluity, the world is colorless and unrecognizable — the whole effect is like a microscope or a camera lens zoomed in too close.
"It shouldn't be overly streamlined or stripped of character, which is maybe how people perceive Hillary.
VideoGamer.com found online character progression streamlined by comparison with the original version.
For a space that's even more streamlined yet still filled with character, attach more storage to the walls to free up work surfaces.
As my colleague Richard Brody has written, the movie's drama and characters have been streamlined so as to reveal their "underlying mythic power".
His plays, though rooted in reality, are fables, whose uniqueness lies in their distinctive music — a terse, streamlined orchestration of thought, language, and character which draws viewers in and makes them work for meaning.
