Word: precisionism
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The scene: a road-racing course for sports cars set in wooded, rolling terrain an hour north of Atlanta. Noise, crowds, confusion, the racketing whine of unmuffled racing engines as drivers repeatedly blip their throttles in anticipation of the start. For a week now the Sports Car Club of America...
But such influences are melded into a wholly modernist idiom. Hodgkin does to the Indian miniature what Matisse did to Islamic decoration; the source is not simply quoted but transformed. The miniaturist's precision of edge and line is replaced by a fuzzy, affable kind of formal system-nursery...
The Kremlin's much vaunted missile force, which Reagan cites as proof of Soviet superiority, is far less diversified and mobile than America's. In a few years the most threatening of the Soviet rockets will themselves be threatened by the latest U.S. warheads. Some of those are...
Weiner, like the rest of the great herd of American media commentators behind which he straggles, jumbles identities and affiliations, governments and peoples with little regard for precision. Among the distinctions he fails to keep before him as he writes are those between Jews and Zionists, Jews and Israelis, Israelis...
"It seemed things were just a hair off at times," explained Shattuck. "We lacked a little the precision."