Word: precisionism
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The precision of the small has delighted men through the ages. French scribes charmed medieval dukes with their illuminated books of hours. Persian miniaturists captivated jaded sultans with their courtly fables of princess and peri. Dissolute French aristocrats wore miniature portraits of their mistresses in medallions around their necks.
So wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. And so believes American Composer Earle Brown, 42, whose music bears an unmistakable relationship to the plastic arts. Brown's work owes a debt to the mobile sculpture of Alexander Calder and the abstract expressionist painting of Jackson Pollock. His scores are...
OLIVER! They've removed Dickens' reformist zeal, but substituted some colorful period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart and some perfectly stunning sets by John Box. The result is the best musical of 1968. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark...
Most airports are only equipped with a navigation and approach system called VOR-DME (for very high frequency, omnirange, distance-measuring equipment), which guides a plane into the traffic pattern. But it is the final letdown through fog or rain that produces the tensest moments for pilot and crew. Then...
On route to the finals, Nayar defeated John Smith-Chapman, Canada's number two ranking player and Sam Howe, the United States' number one ranking player, each by the score of 3-1. Nayar had defeated Sam Howe last year in the Canadian Nationals; consequently, the former Yale great changed...