Word: precisionism
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A U.S. power shovel advertised for one-ton capacity handles one ton of dirt; a European shovel may be cheaper, but the rating includes the weight of the shovel and it handles only four-fifths of a ton. The Commerce Department's Expert Emil Schnellbacher deplores the "great to...
In the cockpits are more of the wrappings of the cocoon: rigorously trained pilots with computers for brains and steel for nerves, whose proficiency is checked by the clock and whose mistakes-even minor ones-are costly. The planes they fly are machines of infinite precision, built and maintained and...
Once More was completed last July, two months before Actress Kendall's death, at 33, of leukemia. Many of her scenes were shot while she had a high fever. Nevertheless, she gives in her last picture what is possibly her funniest film performance. At one point, while Brynner is...
The dancing, though, is what matters, and it is magnificent. Maya Plisetskaya, the public favorite among Russia's younger ballerinas, dances the double role of Odette-Odile with a mixture of faultless precision, lyric grace and sheer animal power; Nicolai Fadeyechev as the Prince and Vladimir Levashev as the...
Ashton's new Fille is an unabashedly lyrical, bravura showcase for pixyish (5 ft. 4 in., 105 Ibs.) Nadia Nerina (born Nadine Judd in Cape Town), long acknowledged the company's most polished virtuoso. Around the 32-year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant...