Word: precisionism
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More promising may be the improvements in the precision-guided U.S. weapons, like the so-called smart bombs that are literally steered to targets by television, laser beams and other means. With their pinpoint accuracy, they could stop many of the Soviet tanks that would spearhead a Warsaw Pact invasion...
The operation that the Israelis chose to code-name Stone of Wisdom appeared to have been carried out with their characteristic precision. Within 18 hours the Israelis had achieved their primary military goal, which was to smash the Palestinian guerrilla strongholds near the border in southern Lebanon and establish a...
The abduction was carried out with deadly precision. At 9 a.m., after first attending his daily Mass, the punctual Moro left his apartment in the Trionfale quarter on the north side of Rome and got into the back seat of his blue Fiat 130. His police driver and his bodyguard...
At week's end the Red Brigades, Italy's most infamous terrorist gang (see box), produced a Polaroid photograph of the captured Moro and a handbill warning that he would be subjected to a "people's trial." The typewritten flyer, emblazoned with the awkward five-pointed Red...
The orchestra concluded the evening by breezing through Prokofieff's Classical Symphony, a spirited work which at once satirizes the formalities of eighteenth century classicism and attempts to reconcile them with the more broadly defined harmonic conventions of the twentieth century. It is scored for the highly classical combination of...