Word: precisionism
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Gutsy Oldsters. The new emporiums bear little resemblance to the tumbledown, teen-age hangouts of the '40s. They have psychedelic curving walls, neon lights and screaming stereo sound. Many rollerdromes are equipped with game rooms, dance floors, and pro shops that sell skates and carrying cases on easy-payment...
But it is the passenger list that may cause Lumet the most trouble. John Gielgud, Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Connery, Wendy Hiller, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Lauren Bacall and Anthony Perkins are among those embroiled in the huggermugger aboard a train snowbound in the Alps. Lumet has...
The long strips crisscrossing the desert veer from a straight line by only a few yards every mile. The accompanying triangles, rectangles and trapezoids are laid out with equal precision. In their midst are drawings of huge spiders, a giant nine-fingered monkey, birds, fish and reptiles, some of them...
Blazing Saddles is full of inspired concepts, but Brook's insipid direction dilutes their strength. His acting is no better: Instead of comedic precision or subtlety, Brooks offers the sort of mugging and clowning found in bad summer camp skits.
Kissinger is plainly worried that the progress toward peace in the Middle East could lose momentum. On at least one of the fronts, though, advances are still being made. The Egyptian-Israeli disengagement worked out by Kissinger last month has proceeded with a precision that amazes veteran U.N. observers, accustomed...