Word: precisionism
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IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY, by William Gass. The author of the highly praised novel, Omensetter's Luck, focuses an intensely physical image of the Midwest with poetic precision.
It is Gass's precision with words as physical objects that gives these somber stories a weight out of proportion to their size. In more than one sense, they have a rare specific gravity.
But a major battle did occur at Khe Sanh-one that prevented the bloody hand-to-hand battle on the ground that many military men had anticipated. It was a battle of the air might of the U.S. against every stratagem that the besieging enemy could muster. Bombing the North...
Daily Bulletins. As a starter, Castro closed down the country's 3,900 privately owned bars, where Cubans tended to gather and grumble. "We have made many investigations into these bars," he said. "How much they sell, how much they earn, who meets there, what they say, and more...
As the Saturn 5 lifted off its Cape Kennedy launching pad with dramatic precision last week, ground controllers had visions of a repeat of last November's near-perfect maiden flight of the giant rocket. Their optimism was premature. Only six minutes after lift off, Saturn encountered the first...