Word: precisionism
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The retrospective that New York City's Museum of Modern Art has dedicated to his work this summer (through Oct. 1) cannot by nature give much idea of Schwitters' larger ambitions. The projects that vented them either were not begun or were destroyed, like the house in Hanover that he...
My mom and dad were so different. That's probably why they were attracted to each other. They both love classical music and they both love my sisters and me. Aside from that, they had nothing in common. With Dad everything was precision, accuracy, "bead-on." He had the fastest...
The earlier word was "quality," whose utterance was meant to mark off a given artwork from the swarm of others and confirm the precision of a collector's taste. Interesting has the opposite effect. It suspends judgment, covers the rear, and defends the vacuum-cleaner habits of a cultural mass...
-- In Los Angeles, a federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. citizen for exporting to Israel 810 high-speed precision switches known as Krytrons, in contravention of U.S. export laws. It is an open secret that Israel has its own atomic weapons program; Krytrons can be used as part of...
During his three-year stint at F.D.O., Khan had copied the plans of the centrifuge process and sent them back to Pakistan. He had revealed to his countrymen the names of more than 100 European, Canadian and U.S. firms that could provide the necessary equipment for a plant. Using a...