Word: precisionism
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It is the most traditional of ceremonies at one of the nation's most hallowed shrines. On the broad green plain high above the Hudson River, where Baron von Steuben drilled minutemen 200 years ago, thousands of proud parents and nostalgic graduates will assemble this week to watch the...
Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "He is brushed with star quality-it is almost tangible as he races through a factory or strides down a street. In appearance, there is about this taut, intense, self-sufficient man an anthracite hardness. His nose is bony and defined with a hook that...
Police detectives in New Jersey could hardly believe their ears. A mobster hit man named Joseph Rodriguez was spilling detail after gory detail about the 1972 slaying of Mafia Boss Emmanuel ("Nello") Cammarata. Rodriguez, 32, fearful that a contract was out for his own head, hoped for police protection by...
Whatever the material or the subject, the sense of design never falters. Nor the painstaking labor required of kimono makers. The most difficult technique was known as sō-hitta, or overall tie-dyeing. The word suggests rich hippies in blotchy homemade tank tops, but the Japanese craftsmen of the...
THE BITTER FRUIT of this presentiment of life's decline proliferates throughout the book, which is a chronological narration of a road trip in the 1974-75 season, and expresses itself in many less conscious descriptions. In his digressions, Bradley dwells on the sick and aged members of the very...