Word: precisionism
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Poor Alec ruefully realizes that he makes better love in print than in person. The moment of climax is a moment of crushing, middle-aged anticlimax: "I can't make love in the past tense, and love seems to be all in the past tense for me nowadays." British...
At a few minutes past midnight on April 1, the Communists launched what U.S. officials termed the spring offensive. At least 115 allied targets were pounded by mortar and artillery fire, and at least five significant ground attacks were reported. The onslaught was convincing proof that the enemy still has...
Assured Masculinity. Physically, Gunn is a lean six-footer who bends slightly forward from the waist as if he were bracing himself against a brisk wind. His long tapered fingers shape the air with the aristocratic command of a symphony conductor, and his voice has a resonant precision that quells...
The Duke d'Escargot (played with prinking precision by Victor Spinetti) persuades the Corsican Brothers to help him overthrow Louis XVI (Hugh Griffith). As the Corsicans approach Paris in disguise, their boat is attacked by the revolutionaries. In the fray the peasant brothers filch their counterparts' violin case...
From the first chord of "Jemima Surrender" to the last note of "Slippin" and Slidin it was as though The Band derived a peculiar pleasure from the very act of being on stage, playing their music. There was Richard Manuel, head turned away from the piano, eyes closed, his melodic...