Word: precisionism
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Chemist Clementi firmly believes that test-tube computers will bring new precision to chemistry. They will also enable scientists for the first time to study otherwise inaccessible chemical reactions that occur in the extreme temperatures of rocket engines, for example, or under the stupendous pressures at the center of the...
The Ruhr seems unable to break out of its outmoded coal-and steel-based industrial pattern, which is slowly pulling it down. As cheaper oil and natural gas continue to win the battle against coal, an eerie stillness hangs over abandoned mines in parts of the Ruhr. By contrast, Baden...
Consider the plot of Tea Party, a one-acter that, along with The Basement, is being offered off-Broadway. The central figure is Sisson (David Ford), a middleaged, successful British manufacturer of bidets. A self-made man, he prizes decisiveness, precision, strength of character. A widower, he marries a genteel...
Of more practical matters, let the record show that this reviewer found both movies atrociously filmed in ugly color, edited with the precision of a two-year-old turned loose with a jar of peanut butter, and inadequately acted by teen-agers who plainly considered themselves better than the people...
Hardest of all was the use of color. Sporadically, through the years, Kline tried and failed. Black and white, the nouns and verbs of his paintings, could talk to each other in a stately pidgin English, but colors, the adjectives and adverbs, often garbled the conversation to an incoherent babble...