Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that he left both legs behind in Viet Nam. But the newest play, which should have been the first, chronologically, just meanders, with no discernible destination. A telegram announces the death of Timmy, for instance, and Timmy's ghost (David Ferry) appears onstage to explain in interminable detail how he was blown to pieces on Saipan. Shakespeare pulled the same corny trick in Hamlet, but his ghost had a purpose. Wilson's does...
...times there seems to be an excess of anti-Soviet exhortation in the President's rhetoric, it may spring from the kaleidoscopic picture of world events that Allen and his aides produce every day. Terse paragraphs tell the story in words. Satellite pictures lay it out in stunning detail: tanks, planes, missiles, submarines, divisional cantonments carved out of wilderness areas in Siberia. It is a buildup of potential death that goes beyond all reason, and our cameras do not lie. (Once, the story goes, they even defined a Soviet sun worshiper with her bikini top down...
...Preakness. The big race is Saturday's Belmont Stakes, final jewel in the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred racing. Pleasant Colony occupies a stall midway down the shed row, his needs tenderly ministered to by a groom, his well-being protected by a round-the-clock guard detail. But Barn No. 48 is more than the home of Pleasant Colony. It is the domain of Johnny Campo, the controversial trainer who violated one of the conventions of the racing world by brashly predicting victory for his once obscure colt: A new coat of paint might spiff up Pleasant Colony...
...couple split because, in Hamlin's words, "we grew apart." He had left the Marines in 1976 and attended Riverside Junior College in California. He performed well, applying his military-bred sense of detail to his courses. Hamlin wanted to go further, so he decided to transfer. "I asked my guidance counselor, 'What's the best school?' I had joined the Marines because it was the best outfit. He said, almost jokingly, 'Well, the real best is Harvard.' It was the only place I applied...
...Harvard senior yesterday was arrested and charged with idle and disorderly conduct at the corner of Putnam Avenue and Kinnaird Street, where two controversial incidents between the student and and off-duty Cambridge policeman working a private detail occurred yesterday morning...