Word: detail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfailing instinct for what women would regard as glamorous?deciding every design detail of every package and firing legions of aides and admen...
...designs; that is done by Cosmetic and Fragrance President Paul Woolard and executives grouped into seven "houses," which are practically minicompanies, each concentrating on a particular price range and type of customer. But Bergerac must approve all major changes, and he is an exacting judge with an eye for detail. The model in the Jontue ads is pictured leading a white horse; to Outdoorsman Bergerac the first horse that subordinates showed him looked like a sway-backed plow dragger. The boss bought his admen a book on horses and insisted that they study it to pick a more imposing beast...
...these words of George Santayana appeared on a sign above Jim Jones's throne in the Guyanese jungle. After three days of trying to make sense of the People's Temple with traditional assumptions about American life, I found this the most astonishing irony, the most provocative and mysterious detail...
Jordan likes to list the things at which he fails to excel. Administrative detail? "I'm not that good at it." Economic policy? "Lucky for the American people I don't make it." The Middle East negotiations, perhaps? "I'm just an observer...
...American viewers, waiting to see Johnny Carson, were treated to the sight of a now-dead reporter interviewing and filming scores of people just a few hours before the deal went down for all of them. Never before have we been able to witness a lurid event in such detail. While the coverage has been good from an informational standpoint, it is somehow uncomfortable...as if it were an invasion of the dead's privacy...and unquestionably in poor taste. If you doubt that, take a quick look at the way Newsweek and Time featured bloated corpses and screaming headlines...