Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here. It's time for that goddam party again." But others do not appear to deserve their build-up, in spite of Dickson's chatty "he told me" style. Neither the maestro nor the family and colleagues Dickson interviewed were strong on bon mots. Certain points simply beg for detail. Dickson lauds Fiedler's genuis for selecting balanced programs, yet endlessly reiterates a generality--in this case, he writes a full page and a half without naming a single piece...
Despite Sutcliffe's admission of guilt on the seven charges of attempted murder and 13 of manslaughter, his trial was far from over. Expressing "grave anxiety," the judge, Sir Leslie Boreham, asked the attorney general and chief prosecutor, Sir Michael Havers, to explain "in greater detail than usual" the background of Sutcliffe's "diminished responsibility" plea-a British variant of "temporary insanity." After reports about the defendant's mental state were read, Justice Boreham finally responded: "It would be more appropriate if this case were dealt with by a jury...
...MANY ways his book is the best of these inside-Harvard Jobs because of his sense of humor and eye for detail. But still there are problems here that preclude a truly serious reading. Gentle Vengeance is not a book you'd recommend to the Dean of HMS for Careful consideration...
...four who did-and who also learned Virgil's first name, Grainger's nickname and nearly every vital detail about the bank-left the van in a shopping center a mile away. Tucson police and the FBI started with nothing more than vague descriptions and a tip received five days before-not passed along to local banks-that two convicted bank robbers and murderers might have arrived from California...
Cooke's story that her own life was in danger. Bob Woodward, the metropolitan editor, believed the story too-which is surprising, since in the bestselling Watergate books that made millionaires of Woodward and his partner Carl Bernstein, he made such a proud point of how every Watergate detail had to be doubly verified by a second source, often the still unidentified Deep Throat. (Since the scandal broke, the Post has gamely printed some tough critical mail, including: "Is it possible that little 'Jimmy' does, in fact, exist and is living on the very street with...