Word: deviationism
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Kill, If Necessary. Bergman scorns "The Method" of coddling the actor's ego; instead, he hard-boils it. Once the day's work has begun, no performer may leave the set, not even to make a phone call. Not the slightest deviation from script is permitted. Bjö...
To the Rescue. Mao, after Stalin's death, fancied himself the senior philosopher of Communism, a man who had made his own revolution instead of merely inheriting it. At first Mao often intervened grandly in Communist Europe-at one point to back the Poles against Kremlin pressures, later to...
Lin, while no less a soldier than Peng, can be expected to hew to the party line more closely. And to help him stamp out any disaffection in the army, he will have the help of a new chief of staff: Peking's No. 1 policeman, Lo Jui-ching...
¶ John Ferren explains his seemingly heretical deviation into symmetry: "My symmetrical paintings were an emotional experience and an individual conclusion. To me personally, the central form was 2-necessary. I, myself, see through it."
Mr. Trottenberg, in a new and commendable deviation from the ways of his Puritan predecessors, has now decided that the draft-induced chills of those who live in the older Yard dormitories are no longer necessary to produce a properly studious outlook.