Word: precisionism
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Agonized Search. All of these novels have a jolting brilliance and precision of characterization. Jason Compson, bitter, narrow and enraged by personal failings, is a merciless rendering of the type of Southerner who constantly vents his frustration with lines such as "What this country needs is white labor. Let these...
Next day, with a precision born of 40 years as a soldier, Taylor strode out of the Pentagon's river entrance exactly at 10 a.m., escorted by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Lined up before him was an honor guard of ceremonial units from each service and the U.S. Army...
Plot, though vaguely based on reality, is only one of Molly's handicaps. The sound track seems to amplify every commonplace tune into a fugue for trip hammers. The red plush trappings of old Colorado, as Hollywood sees them, produce instant antipathy. And Broadway Leading Man Harve Presnell repeats...
Warren's opinion required only that both branches of state legislatures be represented by members from districts "substantially" equal in population. He added: "The equal-protection clause requires that a state make an honest and good-faith effort to construct districts, in both houses of its legislature, as nearly...
Wozzeck was a smash. "How long," mused L'Express, "has it been since L'Opéra de Paris has offered its public a work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost...