Word: precisionism
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The clarity of registration in Calla han's pictures flows naturally from th camera's function as a precision instrument. Usually there is a sense of meditative arrest, as if the shutter really had stopped time, giving the images a most singular density. Callahan's visual world...
This strategy has made sense to NATO, even though the alliance is so heavily outgunned on the battlefield. For one thing, NATO would be on the defensive, thus requiring significantly fewer troops than an attacker. NATO also benefits from advanced technology. Comparison of NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks serves as...
Some fine performances compensate for the tedium of The Seven Percent Solution. Laurence Olivier is wonderful in his brief appearance as Moriarty. In the very pettiness of his personality there are the seeds for the drug-crazed Holmes's perception of him as a titanic power of evil. Alan Arkin...
The post-war era has witnessed a mind-boggling proliferation in the number of clubs, and new materials and precision casting have infinitely raised the ceiling on distance and accuracy. Until players were restricted to using only 14 clubs, caddies traipsed along with up to 25, causing golfers to ridicule...
1) An educated person must be able to think and write clearly and effectively. By this I mean that our students, when they receive their bachelor's degrees, must be able to communicate with precision, cogency and force.