Word: precisionism
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Consistency is also always potentially dull, even when the consistency demonstrated happens to be excellence. John Havlicek, never former basketball star of the Boston Celtics, almost never made a mistake on the court. He used the backboard with astounding precision, and stood exactly where he was supposed to on every...
Crerar, considered a good prospect for the Canadian Olympic team, scored on the rebound of a Brooke breakaway attempt. Later Brooke set up Crerar for a pretty breakaway goal. And in the last minute of the middle stanza. Brooke scored after the pair broke in on a two-on-one...
With perfect precision, senior forward Mark Fusco passed the puck to defenseman Ken Code. Code rifled it in to Jim Turner, who poked the puck into the lower right hand corner of the net at 3:41.
Like his "Abstract" gown of 1953, they were all fashioned with a mathematical precision and structural daring that made them distinctly contemporary and distinctively James. His signature was as bold as, say, Alexander Calder's.
Novelist Gail Godwin, 45, has taken up the theme of self-sufficient women with passion and precision. In four earlier works she offered that rarest literary character, the female rogue. This time, in A Mother and Two Daughters, her first bestseller, she soars through nearly 600 pages to modernize the...