Word: precisionism
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Soul Coughing wasn’t exactly the Backstreet Boys either. While the phrase “warm and fuzzy” might evoke images of big purple dinosaurs, Doughty’s work with his former band is evidence that music need not be totally lame to be non...
Carlin Wing’s pieces, like “Sun-sun Co.: Hanging Meat,” present familiar marketplace images in a way that makes their familiarity painfully evident. Wing is hyper-self-conscious about symmetry and repetition, about pattern and economy of perspective. He uses ambient light...
Even if the difference between grades were clearly understood, grades provide little feedback to students if they separate quality into only four categories—especially if those categories are at the very top of the grade scale. A student might earn a B-plus on three different papers for...
After the first couple of games, it became clear that Harvard was the superior team and the probability of an MIT victory shrank exponentially. After 31 errors in the first two games, the Crimson committed only five in the third. In the fourth, the team’s hitting percentage...
"You Can Have Him" (1949), by Nancy Wilson (1962) on "Capitol Sings Irving Berlin." But really "I've got to have him"; this two-part song from "Miss Liberty" itemizes the domestic indulgences a wife, then a mistress would lavish on the man they share. Starting sassy (a younger Eartha...