Word: precisionism
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Many Cape Kennedy engineers bring home the fail-safe attitudes necessary to their work. "These are intelligent, perfectionist males who are usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt...
Anyone intimidated by the ominous mood of the museum will be greeted by these experiments in many styles and mediums with a louder-than-usual tone. A minimal sculpture sits contemplating its own existence, while a geometric plastic chess set looks ready to be used. All the works are executed...
Limitless Variety. Cranko has gone the mandate one better. He has given Stuttgart not only a superbly knit, brilliant young company but has also played on his dancers' strengths to form a style that is like none other. At any given moment in a typical Cranko ballet, the stage...
Planned Hibernation. Though Williams' first professionally produced play was titled Battle of Angels, he and his heroes have more frequently and more valiantly battled with the devils of dread, insecurity and panic. In the past, Williams could cast out those demons with the daemon of his art. He could...
Entomologists still credit Nabokov as a serious lepidopterist. He described a dozen new variations of butterfly (mainly in the broad-ranging subfamily of blues), including the Lycaeides melissa samuelis Nabokov. His reports were models of precision, experts recall. But, in a prose necessarily dense with taxonomical terms, a few refreshing...