Word: precisionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That incident, as it turned out, was a harbinger of more disappointments. Going into the final rotation in the all-around competition, Comaneci was in sole possession of first place. She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her...
For three hours the capacity crowd of 103,000 at Moscow's Lenin Stadium gazed in wonder at the gorgeous pageantry: a replica of a Greek chariot circling the track, dance troupes, precision ribbon twirlers, and a torchbearer who reached the top of the stadium by climbing a human...
But the danger of these richly diverse but fragmented approaches to American history is that they degenerate into in coherence; historians thus are reproducing, with an eerie precision, the pattern of their own society. Just as the U.S. has grown balkanized, turned into a landscape of single-interest constituencies and...
Where is the humanity behind Borg's implacable visage? At Wimbledon, it peaks through, but only fleetingly. Machine-like personality need not accompany machine-like precision. And while these observations in no way condone the brattishness that pervades tennis's upper echelons, it is possible to be both mannerly and...
Gordeyev is an immaculate classical dancer. When he leaps, he seems suspended in air, an illusion that never fails to thrill audiences. He is also fiery enough to fill up a role like Spartacus. Pavlova is soft and romantic next to his virility, more an ingénue than a...