Word: precisionism
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Viridiana (Kingsley International). In the first reel of the first important film directed by Spain's Luis Bunuel, something surreal called Un Chien Andalou (1929), the camera watches closely as Bunuel himself opens a straight razor and with surgical precision slits a woman's eyeball. From that frame...
What brought about this success most of all was Paul Schoeffler's brilliant handling of Sachs. The continual philosophical note of his lines never strayed into pomposity; a spread-legged geniality did not dissolve into pointlessly effusive gestures or sprawling pitch. The drama discards Wagner's customary alliterations; tense articulation...
- Amid speculation that Migratory Medici Huntington Hartford, 50. was in a nesting mood again, ex-Second Wife Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 31, weighed in with some advice for her rumored replacement, Philadelphia Model Diane Brown, 22. Counseled the onetime cigarette girl who turned painter-actress under the spreading A. & P...
> Because of its high wages, the U.S. is behind competitively in products that require a large amount of labor, notably consumer and precision goods, such as transistor radios, cameras, porcelain, cutlery, shoes, rugs, bicycles, small tools.
> Soichiro Honda, 55 (TIME, Aug. 25), a former auto mechanic whose precision-built Honda motorcycle has won world fame as the hottest thing on two wheels.