Word: precisionism
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The 1982 Tigers have the same deliberate style Coach Peter Carnl demands of all his squads, but they lack their usual precision--hesitating on open shots and flubbing easy fast breaks Not surprisingly, Penn has already beaten them twice, and the basketball fanatics of scenic mid-New Jersey dismiss the...
Kandinsky spent his whole life waiting for this Theosophical heaven-on-earth and trying to work out its art language, in which colors would have the semantic exactness of words, and sounds the precision of things. The prospect of its imminent arrival was one of his favorite subjects as a...
IN JANSON's History of Art, it is written that turn-of-the century painters saw in cubism "a special affinity with the geometric precision of engineering that made it uniquely attuned to the dynamism of modern life." Substitute "jumble" for "dynamism" and grasp the essence of Rubik's Cubism...
If it chastises the President's simplemindedness in foreign affairs the metaphor probably reflects a shared and abiding American faith in a world we can solve. That geometric precision may not be attuned to modern life. The cube cliche recalls the Gordian Knot, that ancient interlocking challenge whose solution held...
The general echoed that sentiment at a no-questions press conference the next afternoon. He praised the Italian police effort for its "speed and precision," then added, "When you are on the receiving end of prayers, you sure as hell can feel it." He also presented Judith with a belated...