Word: precisionism
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"Nosedive." A Kyoto banker's son, Nagare was so brash from the beginning that his father packed him off to a Zen temple to meditate. While there, Nagare was entranced by an aging master swordsmith, who ritualistically tempered keen blades for samurai swords, as good for beholding as for...
Power served under growly, grumpy Curt LeMay in the Pacific and impressed his boss-probably, say some cynics, because Power was so much like LeMay. The day LeMay took over SAC in 1948, Tom Power became his deputy, soon earned a reputation as a hatchet man who executed orders with...
As always, McNamara was crisp and decisive, clicking off facts with computerlike precision. But candid as he was, he was still cautious. And in many instances, what he said could only serve as a launching point for what he did not say. Thus, the real, breathtaking picture of U.S. nuclear...
The first part of the Reincarnations, a whimsical love song called "Mary Hynes," gave the chorus an opportunity to show off the precision it has developed during six short weeks of rehearsal. The playful syncopations were sharply executed; phrasing was smartly tailored to the words. In the tone poemish second...
A Dallas firm called Diamond Electronics has contracts with Detroit automakers to get its stereophonic set installed in demonstrator models. When a prospective buyer goes out for a road test, a tape-recorded pitch begins softly: "You are now driving a masterpiece of precision engineering . . ." Besides the standard rock '...