Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not they were correct in every detail, Audubon's woodpeckers quarreled, his swallows nestled, his wild turkeys gobbled. Audubon had turned paper into air, and set birds free...
...Giovanni, each Madonna and Child, Crucifixion, Pieta, martyred saint, and lay portrait was an essay on nature as well as on man. He organized his pictures with the care of a conscientious gardener, planting every detail where it would have room to grow and impress itself on the eye. Light was all-important in his best works; he fixed its color and quality precisely enough to show the weather and the time of day. But the light said even more: he made it a link between people and landscapes. In paintings like Saint Francis (see cut), the painted light seems...
...When Patterson and Wife No. 1, Alice Higinbotham, were divorced in 1938, the story was played in detail on Page 2. His later marriage to Mary King was briefly noted on Page...
...Wrote ex-PM Correspondent Kenneth Crawford last week in the Progressive: "This book is a compilation of the latrine talk. . . . Anyone who saw or took part in the campaigns described . . . will be irritated by distortions and inaccuracies in detail. I have underscored so many in my copy that it is practically mutilated. . . . What astounds me is the willingness of many reviewers who know the facts to accept this stuff...
...pithecoid person of extraordinary sensuality." Victorian Doctor attempts to give him his due as a medical man and to show the sort of person he actually was, scandal aside. T. G. Wilson, himself a prominent Dublin doctor, tells the story well, in reasonably dispassionate if sometimes long-winded detail...