Word: precisionism
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But soon the frisbee was retrieved and the eight was on the water--eight pairs of knees bending up, eight oars gliding through the water, eight bodies pulling back, the whole thing working like a smooth, strong precision machine. The boat sped up the Charles, leaving behind Jackie Zoch who...
What a gag like this lacks in novelty Director Blake Edwards can make up for with the trim velocity of his timing, the precision engineering of each comic contretemps. Then there is Peter Sellers as Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of...
Kiss of Death. The killer or killers acted with methodical precision, leaving the police with few clues beyond seven .22-cal. shell casings. A lightweight .22 is not the sort of artillery that the Mafia usually employs, leading to speculation that an embittered girl friend, of whom he had many...
3) No nation can escape the burden of history. For Egypt this includes the burden of Nasser's terrible act of shattering a condition of relative stability eight years ago. The traumatic effects are still at work in Israel's mind. The peace map must be constructed with...
Future chroniclers of the New York theater will point to this period as the age of the choreographer-director sun gods. The Apollonian names will be Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Michael Bennett and Bob Fosse. Fosse makes total demands in the realm of precision. Apart from that, he is the...