Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allows them to write only about 70 measures at a time, requiring them to print out long pieces in sections. Moreover, using the program at full capacity causes the tempo of the machine to slow down, while short pieces whip by too fast for the eye to follow in detail...
Poring over the histories and financial ledgers of past Games in exacting detail, Ueberroth concluded that, minus construction costs, all of them would have been solvent. Of course, they might not have appeared as grand. But then, as he analyzes recent Olympics, "They have had two purposes: first, as a statement by a national government. The Germans were saying, 'We're a large, industrialized nation recovered from war. We are a friendly, outgoing world citizen.' The Canadians were saying, 'We are not the stepchild of the United States. We are strong and wonderful.' Certainly the Soviets said time and time...
WHILE VIETNAM REMAINS simple and straightforward, the product so far has been highly professional. With relatively little commentary, the speaker narrates events in detail but refrains from editorializing; he speaks intelligently and treats the viewer as intelligent. The film is crisp with no music save in the opening and closing credits. So far, the interviews have been at least informative and more often gripping and insightful. Even though the series must have been a monumental task alone--with over 100 hours of footage from thousands of different sources to piece together--the cutting is clean, well paced and unnoticeable. Cinena...
From there, the account gets confused. A new book, Deadly Force, and a recent Boston Phoenix article written by a reporter who was riding in the police car when the killing took place, both detail several apparent attempts to cover up the officers' wrongdoing. For instance, claims that Bowden fired at the officers and then threw the gun don't square with a pistol being found much later 200 feet from the scene, an impossible throw...
...heroes. He brilliantly employed the technology of flight in its primitive stage, before technology seemed to overwhelm the individual. If the American space program produced a triumph of teamwork in an age when hundreds of human brains were needed to collaborate, like microchips, in the mastery of so much detail, Lindbergh's flight represented a peculiarly, almost wistfully, American way of doing things. It was a lonely achievement of the American character, self-contained, self-confident, in motion across great distances. Lindbergh perfectly embodies a contradiction in the older American soul. He was a kind of mystic mechanic...