Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mrs. McGuire and Judge Magruder received the five hundred pound dumbbell for the precision and clan of their performance of "Peas Porridge Hot"
After 13 minutes of aimless chitchat by the actors, this unpleasant poser is finally planted on the drooping shoulders of Thomas Mitchell, a golden-hearted old college professor whose days are numbered by heart disease. Along come a former star pupil (Jeffrey Lynn) and his pretty wife (Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose...
In Germany gasoline is allowed only to persons with important business; taxis are not permitted to take passengers on pleasure missions. Berlin's shop windows are full of beautiful goods marked "Not for Sale." Berliners have money, but cannot buy many things they want, such as bicycles, precision instruments...
Basically, 150-lb. football is just like varsity football. Its offensive formations usually run out of a single wing (Yale sometimes uses a double wing). Defensively, the Fifties use all the standard lineups: five, six, seven-man, looping, overshifted lines. But, since all players weigh about the same (no more...
It could be, as such things always have been, as dull as dipsomania. But In the Money is as fully fleshed, as complex, and as curiously beautiful as daily life. So Williams lifts his material clear of the stodgy fog banks of Naturalism. To this central ability he brings an...