Word: precisionism
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The Broadway players were suitably daunted by the exacting precision of Blakemore's instructions and Frayn's stage directions (the script for the second act has two columns to describe the simultaneous goings-on of the two farces). Says Actress Deborah Rush, who plays a spaced-out tax...
A documentary comic book from the prolific Writers' and Readers' Publishing Cooperative. DNA for Beginners succeeds better than similar introductions from the same publisher such as Marz for Beginners or Frend for Beginners, which deal with less visual subjects. Although titled a "comic book," DNA for Beginners should not be...
In fact, the result-Travels with Charley-was a charming little book. Benson might well have made his strongest case for Steinbeck as a rambling raconteur, or as a superb short-story writer. 77?^ Red Pony and The Leader of the People live on as classics for the loving precision...
NASA, of course, does not permit alcohol aboard its spacecraft or on its facilities, but last week, after Columbia's harrowing, computer-plagued final day in orbit, the space agency had good reason to splash everyone with champagne. Sweeping out of the skies in the fading glow of a...
Although Shamir, 68, lost most of his family in Poland during the Holocaust, he seems less traumatized than Begin about the past. Unlike Begin, he shuns the Talmudic obsession with verbal precision, concentrating instead on the practical reality that the words are meant to address. An uninspired and an uninspiring...