Word: precisionism
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Horsepower, that is. Always a top competitor in its class, Porsche in past years was known as the Volkswagen of sports cars-a small, sturdy "superbug" that made up in precision performance what it lacked in muscle. In the past two years, however, Porsche debuted two models designed to mix...
It is not necessary to agree with the agitprop to discern in Playwright Lamb a deft lyricist with barbed wit and a no-nonsense lucidity about contemporary man-woman relationships. Papp moves an able cast around with fluent precision; as the other woman, April Shawhan is certainly one of the...
Stravinsky's music is characterized by clarity, precision, ruthless concision, wild energy, and gaiety-Eliot's magical condition of complete simplicity. His musical sentences are always composed of complete units, which is why he manipulates prosody by syllable rather than word. He abhors sostenuto music, prefers staccato, the breaks of...
It is a good deal easier to love the movie, which succeeds on its own level as a full-out piece of entertainment. The actors-Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert-all perform with precision, and Director Joseph Sargent keeps things moving along at a pace more rapid than...
What excites Herman these days, as it does almost everyone else, is rock-a far cry from the free-blowing kind of blues on which Woody's first band, formed in the late 1930s, pegged its fortunes. His next band (1944-47), the first and best of a long...