Word: intuitionism
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MOVIES . . . SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW: When we first meet Smilla in director Bille August's intricate and compelling realization of Peter Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The...
From the angle taken by this particular adaptation, the acting is first-rate. One does not tend to think of Ibsen as funny; this production favors a style of self-revelation that continually provokes laughter--and not a few hisses. But the acting, like the characterization, is not reduced to...
It wasn't just intuition. The strategy was guided by a mid-1995 survey conducted by strategist Mark Penn. The "Neuropersonality Poll," as Penn called it, attempted to map the psyche of the American voter and became the campaign's blueprint. Armed with those data, every presidential remark, every action...
So what do these numbers all mean? Obviously, for the past six years, they have obviously been indicators of U.S. News' supreme foresight and intuition about the state of the nation's higher education. After all, the same magazine two years ago cited the word Harvard as "the seven letters...
That may help explain why so many of his early prints are not much larger than a playing card. At that palm-size scale the solid world starts to dematerialize. Trees in the mist become twigs. Grasses reflected in water, as in his early picture Detroit, look like not fully...