Word: precisionism
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Within its limited scope, Paper Moon is remarkable for the power and precision of its images. Bogdanovich takes small ideas and small characters and blows them into beautiful pictures that stay true to themselves. The result is mostly sentiment, but of a kind powerful enough to evoke important responses without...
At one 155-mm. howitzer position, imbedded in granite with only its muzzle protruding, the battery commander has choreographed a little ballet to impress visitors from the outside world. His twelve-man squad performs with perfect precision-running, jumping, stamping and shouting-all the while simulating the loading of the...
Palladio: the very name is suggestive, evoking pedimented villas on the bank of the foggy Brenta, the symmetrical façade of Venice's Church of the Redentore, and white porticos glimpsed through Deep South veils of Spanish moss. Palladio died almost 400 years ago, but he was the...
Zero-G did help the astronauts in an important experiment. Firing up their electronic furnace, they melted different materials in a test of techniques that could eventually lead to production in space of nearly perfect ball bearings, impurity-free lenses and precision crystalline electronic components. In contrast to such processes...
Abplanalp (the name is pronounced Abplanalp and means in Swiss-German "from flat mountain") has long had a taste for conservative causes and candidates. He was a strong Nixon supporter in the 1960 campaign, but the two men did not meet until 1963, when Nixon moved to Manhattan to practice...