Word: precisionism
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Whatever their connection with Kabuki, the movements in this picture appear to have been planned with choreographic precision; a lancefight becomes a dance, and the whole story takes on the ritual overtones always associated with true epic.
She conducts so parsimoniously that it would be easy to forget she is there: a little old lady in grey quietly paying out time on the tips of her fingers. When one hand tires, the other begins. Only at the ends of phrases and the entrances of the vocal ensemble...
A note on quality: I have examined one of the ducklings, and the workmanship is superb. It was put together with precision, so as not to destroy the original fluffiness, and the eyes were replaced with most realistic buttons. It must have been made by some marvelous machine, cleverly designed...
In Damascus one morning last week, the Syrian army moved with smooth precision. Up to government buildings rolled Soviet-built armored cars. Troops sealed off the airport, the radio station, the homes of Cabinet ministers. Borders with neighboring countries were closed, and airplanes arriving from outside were waved away. "It...
only 27 defeats by stressing solid precision tactics-he would rehearse a play 500 times before using it in a game-and for all his hard-bitten exterior raised a whole generation of U.S. football coaches ranging from Yale's late Herman Hickman to Georgia Tech's Bobby...