Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earthbound viewers, and even for scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory outside Pasadena, which masterminds Voyager's progress, the show-stopper was, once again, Saturn's rings. Better illuminated than they were during Voyager 1's flyby, they showed up in greater detail and in far greater number: literally by the thousands. Before Voyager 2's visit, scientists had a ready hypothesis to explain why the icy materials of the rings-fragments ranging in size from dust specks to boulders-follow only certain orbits and not others, leaving gaps of hundreds of miles. The gaps...
...rhapsodizing over her work as though she were a gifted parrot learning, at last, to repeat a phrase, while the supercilious drawing master points to the model she must copy. In the crammed, tilted space, the heads on their distorted bodies swell grotesquely, like pale masks. Every detail of costume is there-one could dress an opera from Traversi-but the whole has gone awry: we gaze into a cuckooland of cultural pretension. Small wonder that Traversi failed to get the big commissions; but his work stays in the mind long after the more decorative things in this show...
...Strauss; of a stroke; in Salzburg, Austria. Despite the international scope of his appearances and recordings, Bohm remained most closely associated with three great native institutions: the Vienna State Opera (at which he served two stints as director), the Salzburg Music Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic. A stickler for detail who shunned showmanship for clarity and fidelity to the score, he once said: "I bring to conducting my own enthusiasm for the music-and then there are things I know that perhaps others...
...still sparing no detail, he gives his own story the Bishop treatment. "I reached into my sagging trouser pockets and pulled out a kitchen match," he writes of his first encounter, at age 14, with an unclad female in a dark room. "I struck it on my shoe and, when the flame flared, I held it high up between Tessie's thighs to ascertain the what and the where. For no reason whatever, the girl popped straight up in the air screaming." He barely graduated from the eighth grade and was fired from every job his father...
...word? Whatever their union's legal case may be, the controllers did take an oath; was that not a binding deed? Many Americans found themselves distantly disturbed that what was once a matter of some human solemnity should be brushed aside as if it were merely a technical detail. The social edifice shuddered slightly; down in the basement, a dusty little taboo fell off a shelf and shattered...