Word: precisionism
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In April of last year, when the identification and mass production of the AIDS virus was announced in Washington, Health Secretary Heckler vowed that blood-screening tests would be available in record time. Medical scientists made good on that promise within nine months. Still, the fact that the test kits...
How so? The comedy is Buster Keaton-- ish in its precision timing. Chow's swooping camera is as nimble, and as respectful of Hong Kong film tradition, as the veteran actors he has assembled. The film merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo...
Such incidents happen a lot, which is why timing and precision are so crucial to the success of the team.
In his dealings with Congress over the past four years, Ronald Reagan has been a kind of Music Man. With careful timing and precision planning, the President has usually been able to march into River City and razzle-dazzle a majority of legislators into joining his parade. Only last month...
As I looked at the wall above me—covered in brackets, printed-out grids complete with team names, seeds, and projected winners—it dawned on me that I was part of something, maybe something special. If this is what it means to be a Harvard College...