Word: precisionism
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Certainly cases like Palm Beach, movies like The Accused and novels like Avery Corman's Prized Possessions may force young people to re-examine assumptions they have inherited. The use of new terms, like acquaintance rape and date rape, while controversial, has given men and women the vocabulary they need...
Mitsubishi's Coilplus subsidiary, a manufacturer of precision steel products, didn't just plop down its new $16 million plant in Will County, ^ Ill., three years ago by chance. The county, 35 miles south of Chicago, prevailed in an intense 15-month bidding contest against 20 other sites in Illinois...
Alcoholism is impossible to define with complete precision. The behavior and symptoms of alcoholics differ enormously. Some alcoholics need to drink daily and suffer when they do not. Others can interrupt their drinking for weeks or even months at a time and then binge.
Beckett was a friend and occasional secretary of his countryman and fellow High Modernist James Joyce, and Beckett's text echoes that author's characteristic wit and precision. In a sense the play is a dramatic translation of Joyce's project--the static narration of a moment of consciousness, undertaken...
Dramatically, Kim's lover Chris, his wife Ellen and his friend John are much less important than the Vietnamese, and the action is largely confined to Asia. The play's real subject is what "they" -- Third World people, Asian people -- think of the basically Western "us" that is presupposed to...