Word: precisionism
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"The Nō as a traditional Japanese performing art," remarks the Tokugawa Museum's curator, Sadao Okochi, in the catalogue, "has been purified and transformed by the dignity of its costumes." The motifs of a robe's design establish the mood, the period and the place of the...
Yet there did remain a need for a fuller, totally accurate account of his life. As Nabokov told Field, "The first biography, no matter what comes after, casts a certain shadow on the others." It is characteristic of Nabokov's precision and fastidiousness that he would like to arrange...
In the spring of 1975, Mee was asked to collaborate on a book with H.R. Haldeman. A founder of the National Committee on the Presidency, which lobbied for Richard Nixon's impeachment, Mee nonetheless flew to California for several days of ultimately pointless discussions. The meetings with Haldeman were...
Down at our level, we have some pretty fancy electronic gear too. There's SOTAS-stand-off target acquisition systems-which use moving target radar to tell us exactly where enemy troops are massing. And REMBASS, which stands for remotely monitored battlefield sensor system. It uses acoustic and seismic...
Flaky Skin. Close's mixture of size and precision is disorienting. Faces would look like this to a louse, if lice could scan them: a fleshy landscape, dried salt pans of flaky skin, monstrous glittering folds of mucous membrane, each wrinkle a canyon, the nose a mountain, lakes for...