Word: precisionism
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The Yale College faculty's decision to adopt a form of pass-fail is not nearly so remarkable as reliance on a numerical grading system for so long in the past. Yale students, of course, greeted the abolishment of numerical grades with cheers Thursday. They know that most college-level...
Stoppard hugely enjoys honing language to the precision point. Nonetheless, a play that rides on words as heavily as does R. and G. ought to have rid itself of some. Even the tensile strength of Derek Goldby's direction cannot keep segments of the drama from dialogyness. There is...
Visual Haiku. Signing can be awkward and slow-paced in plays that depend heavily on dialogue, such as Saroyan's The Man with the Heart in the Highlands, which leads off the current show. But the medium is perfectly suited to such stylized theatrical forms as the Kabuki play...
Tunnel Vision. On their bombing runs, U.S. pilots need all the sophisticated hardware and know-how they can get. Never have they gone up against such a dense and withering air-defense system. There is flak, small-arms fire from rooftops, increasingly frisky MIG fighters and portable surface-to-air...
In 1960, they paid $60,000 for 15% of California-headquartered Electro-Vision Corp., rid themselves of its lackluster movie-theater business, and began producing optical and cargo-handling equipment. Early in 1961, Stone's old boss at Monogram offered to sell him and Karp a controlling interest in...