Word: precisionism
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The most delightful piece on the program (and also that best suited to the talents of the Bach Society) was Couperin's Le Parnasse ou l'apotheose de Corelli. Hathaway played his own harpsichord part, waving a free hand whenever possible at the small group on either side. He seemed...
HOW'S THE WORLD TREATING YOU? manages to be blisteringly funny in the modern British fashion as it peppers hypocrisy, respectability, caste and class snobbery and native Blimpcompoops. Two insuperable zanies, Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge, volley comic antics back and forth with the precision of a finals match...
Precision and finish were the qualities prized by the academicians. Manet settled for a painting "if it only presents a suitable arrangement of patches." And the impressionists who followed him agreed. He could become as engrossed in still lifes as in a tumultuous battle scene, investing neither in sentimentality nor...
Tony Hendra was born in London in an air raid during the German blitz, and his first toy was a piece of shrapnel that landed in his cradle. Nic Ullett, also born in London, was soon evacuated to the countryside, where he was given the privileges of living in a...
Bayliss and Routledge are insuperable zanies who volley words and antics with the pinging precision of a finals match at Wimbledon. Playwright Milner is an agile mind behind the madness.