Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Herbert Lottman's biography Flaubert never manages to bring out that character. While it hints vaguely, almost unintentionally, at contradiction and complexity in the famous author's life, the biography mires itself in dates and detail to such an extent that the personality it seeks to describe is nearly lost...
Fabulous cinematography and directoral attention to detail make Pelle, which was named best film at the Cannes Film Festival last year, an outstanding movie. These qualities are evident in an early scene where Lasse and Pelle have just entered their new living quarters. Although the two have been able to transform this sty into an orderly and respectable bedroom, they could not get rid of the many flies...
...there is Berkeley History Professor Lawrence Levine's Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, which tells, in impressive detail, the story of 19th-century America's unified culture--a time when upper and lower classes shared the same tastes, to their mutual benefit...
...supermarket, I like trying to talk about that. Because I think -- and this may be completely misguided -- if I were at home watching a show, I'd like to hear about Johnny Carson's getting a flat tire. But I don't want to start explaining in great detail what makes me happy, what makes me sad, that kind of crap...
...navy blue Mercury Comet convertible and headed for Fort Eustis in Virginia. At a drive-in near Newport News, Va., the waitress came out and told them that because they were black, they would have to park across the street. Instead, they drove on. He can still recall every detail of the scene...