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Word: detail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international law to send fighters up to inspect the intruder. Common sense, however, suggests that even the most expert observer flying some six miles high in the dim predawn light is not likely to see anything that U.S. surveillance satellites have not repeatedly scrutinized and photographed in far greater detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atrocity In the Skies: KAL Flight 007 Shot Down by the Soviets | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...significantly, their interior designs. Last year the Metropolitan Museum placed the reconstructed living room of his Francis Little House (1912-14) of Wayzata, Minn., on permanent display, joining the Temple of Dendur and other landmarks of the march of civilization. Wright was despotically insistent on designing every interior detail of his houses, right down to flower vases and table linens; he even wanted to redesign the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Reassessing the Wright Stuff | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...final question demanding attention is, of course, whether Harvard got a quality product. Sullivan waxes eloquent about the structure's "post-modernist statement." It uses, he adds, "traditional shapes and forms, putting them together in a much different way." Gund says, "The reason for some of the detail is to make it not look like a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Gatehousegate | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...strange too. The boxer shorts for women look like standard Fruit of the Looms at first glance. Although they have more feminine lines and come in black and pink as well as white, the boxers retain the essential feature of masculine design: a fly. Klein had considered omitting the detail, but, says he: "It's sexier with the fly. These things are seriously thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Calvin's New Gender Benders | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...final question demanding attention is, of course whether Harvard got a quality product Sullivan waxes eloquent about the structure's "post-modernist statement." It uses he adds, "traditional shapes and forms, putting them together in a much different way," Gund says. "The reason for some of the detail is to make if not look like a a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Gatehousegate | 8/2/1983 | See Source »

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