Word: precisionism
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Bringing all the precision and adaptability of an old trouper to the set, Shirley found the job of acting in movies remarkably easy: "I didn't have to project. It was like telling someone about it confidentially. It all seemed so much more intimate, as, of course, it was...
The 17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten...
The world around him changed with dizzying speed. Science grew prodigiously, and its instruments-oscilloscopes, electronic computers, cyclotrons-enlisted superhuman precision and almost supernatural forces. But although Kramer's shop moved out of the stable after 27 years, it changed hardly at all. (The Smithsonian itself never budged from...
REPUBLIC Steel Corp. will build a $1,000,000 plant in Toledo to make 50,000 lbs. a day of powdered iron by a new process. Precision parts (e.g., cams, gears) molded of powdered iron fuse under heat into hard, smooth shapes that need no expensive machining. If Republic, the...
Surgeon Appleby was one of a score or more U.S. doctors who have dropped in to Vienna in the past month to widen their skills. Like Appleby, all of them have had reason to be glad that the American Medical Society is again operating with prewar precision. From 1904 to...