Word: precisionism
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Sadly, many patients are beyond the stage when standard treatments can be of any help. For them, doctors are working on a dramatic last-resort weapon-the replacement of failed hearts. Transplants were all but abandoned in the mid-1970s; only about 20% of the more than a hundred recipients...
For the first time this season, though, the individual A.R.T. performers do not match the precision of the rest of the creative team. Their errors are of emphasis, not conception: Shalhoub's Figaro, feisty and engaging in his monologues, seems too resentful and angry in his battle of wits with...
The story repeated itself at Cornell Saturday, as the Crimson proceeded to dispose of its Big Red counterparts with workmanlike precision.
As the programs continued last week, audiences seemed to be responding well to Baryshnikov's changes: the new faces, the precision of the corps, the buoyancy of Airs, the lighter, faster approach to that sentiment-drenched standby, Les Sylphides. The director himself was dancing brilliantly.
Along with enough plot convolutions, murders and cliffhangers to mesmerize aficionados, Deighton slings spy jargon with knowledgeable élan. He catalogues the latest Swedish submachine gun and the Führersonderzug-Hitler's private train-with field-manual precision. But he has more on his mind than the blueprints...