Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclusion of this story is too obvious--and too sad--to detail at length. The four senior inhabitants of the room are hauled before the Administrative Board. where their actions are scrutinized by a panel of tough but fair administrators. It is regrettable, the Ad Board concludes, but there is only one possible outcome: the entire rooming group, including one summa cum laude candidate in Social Studies, will be required to withdraw, eligible, at best, for readmission within a year. After all, they have clearly violated a good half-dozen of the rules in the student handbook: "radios, television sets...
Boston's cable czar wants more than detail; he seeks a system that will evolve with technological changes without requiring the city to undertake vast excavation or construction projects. Not that he's thinking small. Proposals under consideration include plans for at least 100 channels available for video transmission--64 more than any existing municipal system...
...kind of detail that used to be left to a flight leader was settled during the Viet Nam War by Lyndon Johnson in the White House...
...Avery baked the official wedding cake to be served up to 120 guests at the Buckingham Palace wedding "breakfast" (noon to 4 p.m.). The recipe, he says, "is all in my head. It isn't written down anywhere, you understand. No, I will not give you a single detail." Avery and an assistant, Training Officer Lieutenant Motley, journeyed to the palace six weeks ago to give the bride-to-be an approving peek at their design. The batter had gone into the oven a month earlier. "The longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says...
...well as a prolific screenwriter (The Three-and Four-Musketeers), is best known for his seven Flashman novels, the saga of a Falstaffian poltroon who for sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details of the Countess of Cardigan's Recollections (scandalous...