Word: precisionism
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A little more than five years ago, Bahcall was singing a much more melancholy tune. In May 1990, shortly after the Hubble went into orbit, engineers and scientists realized that something was horribly wrong. The telescope simply wouldn't focus properly--the result, it turned out, of a light-gathering...
Even the orchestra, usually the bane of Harvard musicals, does its job well. It avoids the cardinal sun of drowning out the sin of drowning out the cast a special danger at the Agassiz with its wretched acoustics, and one that nearly sunk "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" two years...
To make the mouse's third ear, scientists fashioned a precision mold out of porous, biodegradable polymer, seeded it with human cartilage cells, then tucked the structure under the skin of a mouse bred without an immune system (to prevent rejection). Nourished by mouse blood, the cartilage cells multiplied, taking...
The precision can be too clinical, as in the depiction of a character from The Vane Sisters: "The interval between her thick black eyebrows was always shiny, and shiny too were the fleshy volutes of her nostrils." But elsewhere there is divinity in the details: "The roofs blaze like oblique...
The play succeeds because the stronger members of the cast are also the most prominently featured, and because everyone delivers and reacts to dialogue with a mixture of freshness and precision. Rachel Siegel's Victoria is the most compelling figure on the stage. She exhibits fine-tuned control in the...