Word: precisionism
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Backing up Miss Beckson are the eight Hot Box Girls who handle their Busby Berkeley-ish routines with adequate precision. However, in "Take Back Your Mink," their strip-tease number which features skin-tone body stockings with strategically-placed, appliqued hearts, the Hot Box Girls appear more embarrassed than their...
CELLIST JANOS STARKER plays with superlative technique: his fingers range the cello fingerboard unerringly while his bow arm sails from one string to another, never straying or accenting incorrectly. But the highlight of Starker's appearance with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Friday night, the Dvorak cello concerto in B minor...
Key Elements. The next step was taken by Giaever in 1960. A former mechanical engineer who was working on a doctorate in physics, he showed that tunneling can also take place in superconductors, materials that lose all resistance to electrical currents when chilled close to absolute zero. In 1962 Josephson...
Later, both of us went through the inevitable how-do-I-find-out-who's-gay-without-risking-being-found-out crisis. Reid's solution struck home with frightening precision. He planned to draw up a "sexual preference questionnaire," completely anonymous, and send it around to all his friends, who...
Though such direct involvement in public issues is unusual for an academic economist, it flows quite naturally from Leontief's most important achievement: the development of "input-output" analysis. Leontiefs big contribution was devising the formulas through which economists can determine with great precision how changes in one sector...