Still, there are miracles that certain performers can spin brightly with the support of a precise and loving director.
The pictures, pretty as they are, are also precise, said Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, ticking off a number of issues, like the size of the universe or the prevalence of monster black holes in the centers of galaxies.
She declined to specify the proposed number of directors or the precise timeline, but current directors said that the board would most likely be sliced roughly in half, and that implementation would begin after the Olympics in August.
Regardless of the precise date, Deborah L. Hughes, executive director of the Susan B. Anthony House, the nonprofit group that operates the site, said she was happy for the recognition.
The new civilian director's precise role has not been defined, but some officials said General Garner would report to Mr. Bremer.
The series will be punctuated by a week-long run of "The Devil Probably," from 1977, the one film in which the subject matter seems to have gashed the director's precise methods and left ragged edges where they tore.
The impersonations of some of his more prickly co-workers — a humorless Kurt Russell, a pompous Steven Seagal, a bellowing Al Pacino — are pointed and precise, but perhaps a director who was not also an actor, as Mr. Stevens is, might have evinced less interest in the more unexceptional passages about the performer's life.
And it just might not be the precise product the casting director has in mind.
Its success relies on director Paul Mazursky's precise and insightful observation of American class-consciousness.
At Kilgour, the most youth-savvy of the Savile Row institutions, creative director Carlo Brandelli has precise views on colour, in fitting with the strict rules of his suits.
