21. "It's almost a flat line ." 22. The deal is flat line funding. 23. No speedup means that the program is not parallelizable, and will have a flat line on this plot. 24. Lures may be fished either straight from the rod tip ( " flat lines " ), or from outriggers. 25. "If everybody gets along perfectly, " shrugs one of the nonchalant producers, " you have a flat line ." 26. All of this is in pursuit of the animator's alchemy : to turn flat lines and colors into living creatures. 27. The photo of the Flat Line representative is Hollywood film actor James Mason, the voice also bears a striking similarity. 28. But writer-director Laurent Cantet ( 1999's workplace drama " Human Resources " ) plays it straight, like a flat line . 29. There may be a flat line on the EKG ( Elektrokardiogramm ) but maybe we can jump-start it back to life. 30. The doctor at the hospital where he's taken says he is dead and so does the flat line on his monitor.