Word: precisionism
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When he writes about a subject he knows well Russo's language and images improve; they become direct, telegraphic, confident. Perhaps Russo's poetry will take a more personal direction in the future, giving him the opportunity for more concreteness and precision, more emphasis on "life" than on "still":
Sir: Jargon is the lubricant of scholarly communication. Its purpose is not to bamboozle the layman or screen academic incompetence behind verbiage, but to increase the precision of language and speed the exchange of ideas. The cost of using jargon-enduring snippy essays like yours -is considerably less than the...
Adrienne Rich has contributed one of the poems from her superb last collection, "Face to Face." She evokes the American past with her infallable precision, lending high rhetoric the aspect of everyday speech in such phrases as "the prairie wolves/ in lunar hilarity," moulding images sharp as her beloved snapshots...
With the help of a veterinary surgeon (Laurence Harvey), a tiny listening device is implanted in a bag-jowled British bulldog named Disraeli. In the name of Britain's Prime Minister, the bugged bulldog is then presented to Russia's Premier. Delighted with his new pet, the Premier...
John Frankenheimer is a hack, an ex-television director obviously more comfortable composing shots within squares than he is filling rectangles. Unable to compose good shots, he frequently employs a split-screen technique, puttting two or more different images on the screen simultaneously, separated by black dividing lines. This enables...