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Word: precisionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Artists prosper," says Rickey, "but it becomes no clearer what art is. To present a Swedish roller bearing as art is at least as plausible as Warhol's presenting a commercial container." Rickey's difference, as the current exhibition of 75 of his works in Washington's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculptures: Engineer of Movement | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

It was 8:30 in the morning, and the streets were crowded, when a dozen an cient T-28s rattled over the city from the south. Working with remarkable precision, they avoided civilian targets, unloaded on army headquarters, the airport, and the command post of Royalist Army Strongman General Kouprasith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Just a Little Rebellion | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

The comedy is set in plague-ridden London where a gentleman has fled the city and left his house in the care of his steward, Face (Robert Symonds). False Face teams up with a charlatan of alchemy named Subtle (O'Sullivan) and a trollop, Dol Common (Nancy Marchand). This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pickpocketing a Classic | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Died. Captain Robert H. Morgan, 32, and Major Frank Liethen, 36, members of the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds acrobatic team assigned to demonstrate high-speed precision flying in air shows; of injuries suffered during practice maneuvers; near Indian Springs, Nev. Morgan, who was flying an F-100F Super...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

With RSA, scientists can reconstruct the characteristics of a foreign satellite from the pattern of radar pulses it reflects back to a tracking station. Largely by measuring the amplitude, or strength, of the reflected pulses, they can calculate the satellite's size; by analyzing the variations in pulse amplitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Signatures in the Sky | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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