In "Eternal Sunshine, " Mr. Kaufman rides his hobby horses -- whimsical surrealism, acrobatic or elastictime, science or psychology reshaped by blithe fantasy -- to a photo finish in which almost everything is worked out elegantly.
"Michael has one flaw in my view that there is hardly a weekend that he hasn't been off the road at one time or another and sometimes several times because he stretches the elastic a tad too far, " said the 67-year-old Scot.
Finally, Amazon Elastic Transcoder automatically scales up and down to handle customers' workloads, eliminating wasted capacity and minimizing time spent waiting for jobs to complete.
The problem with taking an elastic approach to the labor market is that very few professional services firms really know how to manage freelance labor over time.