Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adviser." Janice Nelson, who moved into the Pulitzers' house last March, six months after Peter had moved out to live aboard his 73-ft. yacht. The psychic says she ultimately decided that Peter was "being used unfairly by his wife," and in court last week Nelson described in detail Roxanne's sexual profligacy. Nelson assisted Roxanne is running periodic bedroom seances involving a dozen or more Pulitzer friends. On the foot of the bed were a black cape and a trumpet. Roxanne explained in court that she was hoping "the dead would speak to the living through...
When the lovers awake the next morning in Diva's hotel suite, the camera pans lovingly over every elegant, sun-drenched detail--embroidered sheets, flowers, lacy curtains, Hawkins' sculpted profile--before coming to rest on a sleeping, naked Jules. After a few moments of admiring contemplation, it pans back to reveal a delightful surprise: The boy has spent the night not, as the viewer assumes, between his siren's sheets but chastely on her couch...
...occasionally handles routine "walk-in" cases if the staff if seven is busy. "We'd hate to have a director who never saw any students." Jewett says, but adds immediately that the job is becoming more managerial and organizational with each new regulation from above and its resultant bureaucratic detail. Until the office goes computerized with the rest of the major administrative offices this spring, the thick files crammed with parental 1040 forms and financial data will continue to dominate operations...
When her comic invention flags, Oates offers the fruit of research into the mores of the late 19th century middle classes in America. Her novel is dense with such tiresome detail as the Zinn family's favorite books (Blanche of the Brandywine and Polly Peablossom's Wedding), songs (What Is Home Without a Mother?) and underarm deodorant (chloride of lime and powdered salicylic acid). Oates' heroines quote liberally from the world's worst verse, culled by the author from such works as The Ladies' Wreath, a Magazine Devoted to Literature, Industry and Religion. But what...
...editors also eliminated entire sentences, like Matthew 4: 25: "And great crowds followed [Jesus] from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan." This moves the action along briskly, but at the sacrifice of historical detail. Many complicated sections are cut altogether, such as those Old Testament family trees and lists of kings and much of the ritual law in Leviticus...