Word: precisionism
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Most buffs arrive at the courthouse at 10:30 a.m.-the subway charges half fare for the elderly after 10. Before the cases get going, 30 or 40 of them-all retired men-gather in the hallways pondering the day's entertainment schedule with a precision achieved through years...
Critics like David Halberstam and former Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay have attacked him from left and right. Senators Proxmire and Fulbright have assaulted obvious flaws in the Pentagon he left behind. Adam Yarmolinsky has demonstrated the problems and agonies his former boss endured. Now come Alain Enthoven...
Ali may be strong, but so is Frazier. No amount of bluster is likely to deter Smokin' Joe, a raging, bobbing, weaving, rolling swarmer who moves in one basic direction?right at his opponent's gut. A kind of motorized Marciano, he works his short arms like pistons, pumping away...
She began the Memoirs at the age of 50 as a family letter addressed to her son Aymar, the only survivor of the seven children she had borne. With wit and unsentimental precision she recollected the exact details of a world that had vanished as if it never existed. What...
Football, in other words, is a succession of functionally perfect operations serving an unnecessary function. It is autotelic: the fan enjoys the power and precision of the play for their own sake. Thus, we begin to see what anyone who has ever watched a good game knows or at least...