Word: precisionism
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Ever since the brazen daylight kidnaping and subsequent assassination of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring, Italian investigators have been intrigued by indications that there may have been a West German connection to the crime. Some eyewitnesses reported that they thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the...
The impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over...
This is a warmer Jefferson than Americans are accustomed to. It is also a far more precise man, one for whom phrases like "the pursuit of happiness" were not decorative rhetoric but exact formulas. He thought that happiness was a measurable commodity, that in a science of man, human life...
(Even it, however, was suppressed at the height of the Cultural Revolution, and its artists sent to work the fields.) After an evening with the Chinese performing artists, one begins to see why the tumblers and jugglers, the virtuosos on exotic instruments, have been able to develop to uncanny heights...
Even with long, detailed explanations, he speaks in perfect sentences. There is a precision to his talk that doesn't really hit you until you look back over a transcript of his conversation."