Word: precisionism
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Indeed, for all the praise Stroman has received for the mirror effect that mimics the overhead shot of the swastika dancers in the movie, I haven?t heard a peep about the same device that director Mark Bramble uses to create an even niftier Busby Berkeley effect in "42nd Street...
Just as important as the quality and precision of the models was the subject matter. Tamiya and Hasegawa were the only companies that made scale models of Japanese imperial navy vessels. The American companies were squeezing out endless reproductions of the aircraft carrier Enterprise and the battleship Missouri: model kits...
For me it had to do with military models, in particular nautical ones manufactured by Tamiya. This Shizuoka-based firm, and to a lesser extent its competitor Hasegawa, produced plastic kits far superior to the American versions. U.S. companies like Revell, Heller and Monogram made clunky plastic parts that needed...
Take away the flamethrowers, the medieval torture devices, and the phallic stage props, and what remains of Rammstein? A pretty good industrial band, apparently. While the German sextet’s U.S. debut (1998’s Sehnsucht) was a full-throttle fusion of electronic sounds and speed...
On Friday, as deadline neared, we received word that George J. Church had died of kidney failure on New York's Long Island. In his 25 years here, George was one of the solid rocks on which TIME was built. A master of journalistic compression and clarity, he wrote 126...