Word: precisionism
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Given the B.S.O.'s French-Russian schooling-taught principally by Monteux, Koussevitzky and Charles Munch-it is not surprising that its virtues are brilliance and color, enhanced by characteristic American precision. Ozawa, music director since 1973, describes the sound as "very exact, very clean. It uses subtlety rather than...
"People say the film is porno," Ripploh notes, "but that's not the movie. It's 92 minutes long, and only three minutes and 20 seconds show direct body sex." Those 200 seconds will be enough to attract some people to Taxi and repel others, all for the...
Sowell's reading of American history pretends to sidestep these crevices of conflicting interpretations. He claims to present the conditions that brought different immigrant populations to the New World and their adaptation to its opportunities and frustrations objectively. To a large extent, he succeeds, for what he sacrifices in passion...
Only a few--and E.B. White is one--write so well they can get away with precision, with coziness, with beautifully turned sentences, with smallness. It is not dazzling, or attention-grabbing, and that is the point. Great carpenters plane and sand and join with such skill that they lend...
TIME has learned that the remarkable mission, dubbed Project Pearl and executed with military precision last June, was engineered by Open Doors with Brother Andrew International, a nondenominational, evangelical missionary organization based in Ermelo, The Netherlands. The group has specialized in smuggling Bibles mostly into Communist countries for some two...