Word: precisionism
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MISUSED STATS In his new book The Sum of Our Discontent (Texere), David Boyle suggests that our demand for precision often leads to misleading or silly numbers. For example:
Yet the farceur's instincts never deserted Lemmon; almost alone, he kept upper-middle-class comedy alive long past its prime. In the precision of his diction, the seeming intimacy of his asides, and that dry cackle of a laugh, he was the movies' Johnny Carson. Surely no one devoted...
It cannot be that people think food cooked on a $6,000 grill tastes 30 times better than that cooked on one costing $200, any more than people who buy Manolo Blahniks expect to be able to walk 30 times as far as those who wear Keds. The backyard has...
For many in the developed world, especially Western Europe and the U.S., the answer may be no. But for citizens of developing nations, the outlook (and the answer) is very different. The creation of genetically modified foods - like drought-resistant corn, for example, or super-nutritional rice - holds enormous promise...
Lear, who spends most of his time at CBS as executive producer of "Family" and "Maude," is a dapper, droopy-mustached man of 50 with the comedy writer's congenital air of melancholy, like a sensitive spaniel; he tends to be the spokesman for the team. Yorkin, 46, who concentrates...