Word: precisionism
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Today, advances in recording technology have given record producers an even greater ability to finish up the work of deceased performers, to remix, remaster and rejigger unfinished recordings with digital precision, and, via aggressive '90s marketing, to sell them to the public as authentic. In December, EMI will issue a...
"It's not an easy thing to do, but ...it's the kind of thing you can train to do," Gibson, a former fighter and test pilot, said before the flight. "It's kind of along the lines of some of the stuff I used to do, air-to-air...
Now there are a lot of reasons why this scenario is patently ridiculous, not least among them the fact that no one in his right mind would turn to the U.N. to pacify a vast and unruly nation like the U.S., not when Bosnian Serbs defy U.N. troops as if...
Sounds rational, but it isn't. Whereas heading off the next bomber is a chancy business at best, we could, if we chose, adjust highway death downward with nearly the precision of a volume-control knob. We could better enforce speed limits, say, or close all bars at dusk. Implicitly...
True, Timothy McVeigh didn't hold a steady job, but he never seemed to want for money. In the days leading to the Oklahoma bombing, he paid cash for his motel room in Junction City, Kansas; he paid cash for the Ryder truck that allegedly carried some 5,000 lbs...