Word: precisionism
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TIME editors and writers, before and since, know exactly what L.B.J. was complaining about: the often excruciating precision of the TIME researcher, a quality of mind that requires meticulous, caring, even reverential, attention to fact. Every week a cadre of researchers puts every word of the projected issue of TIME...
Across the world from Czechoslova kia, in Toronto, Olinekova had felt the same childhood alienation: "I was a me somorphic woman growing up in an endomorphic world. That look ? fleshy and round with curves in all the right places ? was a product of genes. You were born with...
With slangy precision, "Young Adult" novels (Y.A. to the trade) vividly portray addictions, sexual awakenings and even the nightmares of rape and incest, all within skateboard distance of the community swimming pool. Says prize-winning Author Robert Cormier (The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese): "Kids aren't just...
In the modern Grimm idiom, all storybook romances make hot story properties. So, well ahead of a real-life heir, a script has been conceived and delivered, and filming has begun, on Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, a two-hour movie to be aired by CBS later this year...
May 1938: the Duce was entertaining the Führer with a grand show of Italy's naval might. Dozens of warships steamed across the Bay of Naples, and, like precision swimmers, 85 submarines dived beneath the water, resurfacing eight minutes later in perfect formation to fire an eleven...