Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is does produce, in Thurber's case, is the most tedious sort of ramblings about his travels, his finances, and--in elaborate, unsparing detail--his failing eyesight. The editors identify "the Thurber Circle" as Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan Kenneth Tynan, and a few other literary buddies, but the letters make it clear that the circle that preoccupied Thurber was his right retina. An entire section of the book is devoted to Thurber's correspondence with his opthalmologist, in which he generally has this kind of thing...
Justin Scott made his reputation in 1978 with The Shipkiller, a superbly written thriller that also had the sea and revenge as its themes. In Normandie, he is again a virtuoso of technical detail and characterization...
ACSR members were reluctant last night to discuss in detail their positions on committee-related issues. "This is very new for me. It's hard to draw conclusions now," Paul S. Russell, Homans Professor of Surgery at the Medical School and a new committee member, said...
...addition to the formation of the committee, Rosovsky announced plans to meet with tenured members of the department "to discuss in detail specific inadequacies in its administrative procedures," and to schedule briefing sessions with them of Faculty affirmative action policies, which will be conducted by the Faculty's affirmative action officers...
...bowl of chicken soup in Flambaum's, the famous kosher restaurant in Paris..." And, almost invariably, the Perelman opening moves are as fine as always. For example, the beginning of "All Precincts Beware--Pater Tigress Loose" is a vintage piece--" Saturnine, Tweedy Gabe Hammerschlag, head of N.Y.P.D.'s Confidence Detail, struck a match on his desk top and, sucking the flame into the bowl of his pipe, eyed me meditatively. Gabe and I had known each other ever since 1953, when I had helped him straighten out a rather nasty copyright mess among the Kachins of Northern Burma...