Word: precisionism
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Helprin's previous fiction (Refiner's Fire, A Dove of the East) has been characterized by precision and nuance. Here, gestures become poses, and narratives grow windy and precious. A woman "sweeps the pantry with her motile and patibulary eyes." "On infinite meadows in the black, creatures made...
No longer does a bank failure result in angry customers milling outside locked doors, or widows and orphans being stripped of their life savings. Closings have become so routine that agencies like the FDIC perform them with robot-like precision. Typically, authorities move in after business hours on Friday and...
So it was with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Germany's pre-eminent stage and film director died last year at 36, a fat, wasted mess, bloated with drink and drugs like so many of his movies' protagonists. Yet his films, such as Ali and The Marriage of Maria Braun...
French cuisine, in its classic forms, is mostly verbs and modifiers: the mixing, processing and transforming of raw material. High Japanese cooking, whose root is the austere kaiseki style associated with the tea ceremony, is by contrast all nouns. It is devoted to the thing-as-such, presented in small...
New music and old, all sound on this concert tour compact and soul heavy, spirited but not demented. Bowie and band locomote through a decade's worth of favorites, from Ziggy Stardust through Young Americans, "Heroes ", and beyond, with an all-pro fervor that is deep into funk and goes...