Word: precisionism
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"Welcome to our midday family meal," Lori says, as she sits in her office at Rudivani Precision Motorworks, the car-repair shop she manages in Webster Groves. The two mechanics are eating take-out sandwiches; Lori is eating a hamburger and returning phone calls in her little office. Propped up...
The group is not the cozy setting that it first appears as the women mingle and catch up on each others lives. One woman, seated with the rest, but set slightly apart by her more formal dress and language, can gradually be discerned leading the discussion, angling it with the...
The rock group R.E.M. is not only one of the best bands in America, it is also one of the most consistent. Since its debut in 1983, the band has released nine major albums, and every one has set a high standard; several, including Murmur (1983), Automatic for the People...
A 9-min. segment called Welcome to the World was the next big number, and it too had everything: 30 pickup trucks; 300 members of a marching band; an assortment of 374 cloggers, steppers and precision dancers; 500 cheerleaders and 83,000 audience participants, including the members of the First...
Before I arrived in Cambridge, I always thought Harvard had motored to its present grandness with the precision and cold mechanism of a machine: Each expertly-chosen part was ordered to perform its task with efficiency and independence.