Word: precisionism
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At the left-hand side of the stage, Garcia, heavy and round-checked, smiling benignly, almost maternally, looks calmly happy, interested in what is going on around him; all the while his fingers run through the strings on his guitar, releasing fast notes with easy precision, controlling the pitch, volume...
Last week this debate finally took a needed turn toward clarity with a detailed proposal for a relatively hardline incomes policy issued by the Research and Policy Committee of the Council for Economic Development, a group of corporate chieftains and economists. The sponsorship of the report was as impressive as...
In such a simply written play, the actors become especially important. Gielgud and Richardson are extraordinary. Their meticulous performances, with countless shades and nuances of expression and speech-repeating the same words and sighs in slightly different, carefully thought-out ways-make the play beautiful to watch. In difficult roles...
Those who stayed at home cut further into the dreams of their time. Schnorr von Carolsfeld's entwined lovers jump from a cliff, in erotic slow-motion; romantic fascination with the "inseparability" of love and death was never put more concisely than in this smooth, slick image of sexual...
AFTER more than two decades of Communist rule, regimented pageantry has become China's highest art. To celebrate national holidays, the government often marshals tens and even hundreds of thousands of evenly spaced banner carriers and flag wavers. Schoolchildren throughout the country regularly practice precision marching (often with wooden...