Word: precisionism
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His father, Shaker Morris DeBakey, 80 this week, came to the U.S. from Lebanon when he was 15. By the time his son Michael was in high school, Shaker DeBakey owned a drugstore where the boy helped out and nourished the desire-acquired years earlier-to become a doctor. From...
If, as is usually the case, DeBakey is in a jam between journeys to far cities or foreign lands, he spends the dawn hours writing scientific papers in longhand. He finds that the time it takes to write makes him use words with the precision that is so precious to...
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES (Columbia). Winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the sleeper hit by New Playwright Frank D. Gilroy is written with precision, warmth, acute observation and unfailing honesty. The superb ensemble playing of Jack Albertson as the father, Irene Dailey as the...
A Profession & an Art. The moneymen bear many titles, but basically they fall into three major groups. Enjoying fairly independent positions in their governments, the central bankers those who run national banking systems -feel the freest to criticize and sound alarms. The U.S.'s Martin, for example, keeps reminding...
The lips are curved into an obliging, fixed half-smile. The grey hair is coiffured with mathematical precision, cleft exactly by the part. At the neck, not entirely masked by the photographer's shadows, a few age lines can be discerned. The dress is severe, revealing nothing, so dark...