Word: exaction
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...exact four appointments resulted from "an educated guess" over which people on the original list would work well together, Alonso said, stressing that Harvard hoped that those who accepted the University's offer would build up research teams. Stone added that in negotiating with the scholars offered tenure, Rosovsky "certainly told each person about the other three...
...house overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. There are certainly rock stars who are richer, but no tears of sympathy should be shed over the Bowie savings account. His new record company, EMI America, paid him between $10 million and $17 million to sign on for five albums. Exact figures are hard to come by?no record company wants its other clients to renegotiate for what the star attraction is getting?but it is a rich deal at either end of the spectrum. Bowie's impact and influence have always charted higher than his actual record sales. In a decade...
...watch brief flashback type includes between Robert and each of the five couples who are trying to convince him to get married. Robert responds by becoming his rate as a single man hypocritically, because he is currently dating three completely different, unusual women. And when the first act ends exact as it had started, we naturally assume that the plot is a circle when the second act starts the same way, we think, the play will end where it began...
...Japanese attitude toward paper: he likes it to speak for itself, and his approach is a matter of subtle interventions rather than brusque changes. The "drawing"-in fact stitching, run on the sewing machine in brisk swoops and zigzag flurries of contrasting thread-looks both improvised and exact, like a well-blown line in jazz. The paper shapes themselves start as regular forms: spoked wheels, geometric grids, or a sheet perforated with spaced holes. Most of them are spares, leftovers from earlier "multiple" projects. But because there is so much small-scale chance involved in the casting and drying, they...
...artist (whether Michelangelo or Mailer) in a society that wants him as an entertainment but not an equal. That Greenaway made this icily sumptuous film on a $500,000 budget, and seduced winning performances from his cast, suggests that, in art if not in life, the entertainer can exact his sweet revenge...