Word: precisionism
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At first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can...
Moreover, the long-threatened NATO air strikes had hardly been models of military precision. In misty weather, embattled U.N. peacekeepers called for fighter-bombers to hit Serbian tanks that were firing into Gorazde. Two U.S. Air Force F-16s swept in and dropped three 500-lb. bombs on some tents...
However, the soloists must project over the orchestra on their own as well as keeping key. Phyllis, the sheperdess played by Julia Chou, sings with confidence and precision. Timothy Griffiths in his tongue-twisting patter solos as the Lord Chancellor and Marcia Turner as Iolanthe pleading for her son's...
A case in point is Kennedy's Los Angeles-based AIDS Education/Services for the Deaf, pre-eminent in its field in 1990 thanks to a three-year, $432,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. AESD barnstormed the country, giving three-day training classes to hundreds of...
Whatever the outcome, it may be too late to save the tigers. They once rambled across most of Asia, from Siberia in the north to Indonesia in the south to Turkey in the west. Now they are confined to small, shrinking pockets of their forest habitat. The Caspian subspecies became...