Word: precisionism
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∙PATRICIA MCBRIDE, 22, was born in Teaneck, N.J., rose meteorically through the ranks to the coveted plateau of principal dancer at 18. Her versatility and repertory, from the affected beauty in La Valse to the man-eating insect in The Cage, are unmatched by any dancer her age. Petite...
Duerrenmatt's che sera sera fatalism is colored by a little wit, less eloquence, and the kind of oracular vision that informs playgoers that the work of atomic scientists might doom the human race. Cronyn, Tandy, Voskovec and, most especially, Robert Shaw, perform with the unerring precision of fine...
Pleasure in Precision. "Optical art is this year's dress length," says Carl J. Weinhardt Jr., director of Manhattan's
Scornful of the emotionalism and accident in abstract expressionism, op artists know where they stand. Precision is their pleasure. Their art instantly engages the beholder, yet does not demand his involvement or insist that he relate it to the world of objects, emotions or experiences. Op fascinates the way a...
On Classic Lines. The gods were more elaborately and profoundly explored in Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle. These stories are in his lesser mode. In fact, the stratagem of treating suburbia as if it were a sacred grove, with every flowering tree an imprisoned nymph, works best when it is...