Word: precisionism
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The new CD has few tunes that will grab an AM-dial twirler by the ear. But there's music aplenty in Carpenter's voice, in the emotional precision of her words, in the world she weaves. Take Where Time Stands Still, which will get no radio play but sounds...
How about Dan Marino or John Elway? Likewise, they can take that pigskin and throw it with precision and throw it fast, in addition to being able to heave it over 60 yards.
Despite these shortcomings, some of the pieces in the exhibition are worth examining more closely. The sections entitled "Trompe I'Oeil" and "Twentieth Century Still Life" liven up an otherwise drab show. The former category merits a close look because of the amazing technical skill with which they were painted...
Yet the ugly snapshots from Port-au-Prince did not convey the full picture of the occupation. Despite chaos in the streets, U.S. troops secured one objective after another with clocklike precision. On Monday, as Clinton announced he was lifting the bulk of the U.S. economic sanctions, American MPs moved...
Guterson's particular gift is for description: he takes you into one fully researched scene after another -- gill-netters at work, an autopsy, digging for geoduck clams. With equal precision, Guterson traces the shadow lives of Japanese in the Northwest at a time when Americans of Japanese descent were referred...