Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies.

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Countless modern writers have been influenced by Anton Chekhov's short stories and plays, which renounce plot-based structure, concentrating instead on the quasiabstract sketching of character and mood.

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Broadly speaking, when you break it down, screenwriting consists of three important parts: character development, dialogue, and structure.

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Post-Games (this is called the "legacy mode"), the wings will come off and the sides of the smaller, core building will be glazed, completely transforming the structure's character.

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This structure allows Midler to perform musical numbers from different eras and to attempt the acting tour de force of playing a character at several distinct stages of life.

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