Word: precisionism
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OPHULS takes us out of La Roude with a feeling for the characters whose precision excludes sentimental excess. He describes them in their gestures, their social situations, their physical settings, by the clarity of his dramatic and visual style. But it is impossible to avoid feeling regret for them. The...
The third act is an epilogue in which a plaque is unveiled in honor of the dead playwright, who has presumably gone to the grave without revealing the existence of his last prophetic play. The dialogue rains poisoned darts on love, marriage, friendship and bourgeois values, making Cher Antoine a...
With uncanny precision, the northern hemisphere's migratory birds fly south in the fall and north in the spring-often to targets that are continents or even oceans away. One theory holds that some birds get their traveling orders from the stars. Not quite, says Cornell Ornithologist Stephen T...
BUILDING CODES. They often perpetuate make-work practices, waste, and the use of yesterday's materials and methods. U.S. communities operate under at least 8,300 different building codes; the provisions often conflict, making it impossible to standardize such items as the type of wiring, piping and plumbing. This...
The Wesleyan match showed that Harvard has put it all together, and that the Crimson won't be easily thrown off its game. But Cornell is formidable and can back up its brutishness with a fairly solid technique and a measure of precision in the backfield.