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...found. It ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views of industrial America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully funny fantasy called Happy, Crazy, American Animals and a Man and Lady at My Place, done in 1961. The tiresome shibboleths of the gratuitously embattled...
...basic design Stephens added the lightest equipment money could buy, e.g., an extruded aluminum mast, was thereby able to put the boat's weight where it would do the most good: a 20-ton keel to keep Columbia from heeling excessively under a stiff wind. So carefully did Precisionist Stephens figure his boat's total weight that he even weighed the paper drinking cups and the Tollhouse cookies that went aboard. He added sails for every kind of weather-four mainsails, twelve jibs, eight spinnakers. When he was done, the Columbia's syndicate, headed by Financier Henry...
Author Born sees a new trend, "precisionism," in modern U.S. still life. To his taste, the best living still-lifer in the U.S. is Charles Sheeler, a precisionist who likes painting machines and whose machine-smooth technique often looks as slick as a glossy photograph. "Sheeler's interpretation of the machine," writes Born, "in all its apparent austerity, is ... mechanization . . . humanized. Hence he not only forms the zenith of a development but also points the way to a new goal." That sounded rather like a plastic apple arc-welded to a bulletproof dish-and it did not sound much...
...Manhattan's famed, precisionist Radio City Rockettes...
...complicated deceptive tactics of the coastal campaign he needed more good soldiers than George Kenney and his airmen, and he had them. Most important of all was Dick Sutherland, a lean, bronzed, cool precisionist and a laboratory technician in the science of war. Sutherland knew how to translate MacArthur's sweeping plans into detailed operations schedules. For some of the moves in the campaign they made a six-inch-thick volume. In many an advance they refuted Moltke's dictum that no battle can be fought according to plan after the first few minutes. MacArthur-Sutherland battles were...