Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clasping his knee in his hands and spinning slowly, as he takes random questions from 300 area residents packing the room. He is not caught off guard when asked about the local water shortage problem in northern Jersey. His engineer's mind has a great capacity for absorbing detail. Whenever he is unable to answer, he takes down the questioner's name and promises that an aide will call within a day or two. He looks for a woman in a sea of men in the audience. When a young woman asks him bluntly about mortgage rates...
...some 50 newspapers by the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate. Written by New Journalist Gail Sheehy (Passages), the series unblushingly depicts Cunningham as an angel, awesomely gifted, scrupulously moral and out to improve the world through humane capitalism; it is laced with enough mawkish prose and gratuitous personal detail to make Harold Robbins blush. As the scandal mounted, for instance, Sheehy reported: "Mary Cunningham sat in her hotel room at the Waldorf. She could not eat. Every so often, she stepped into the bathroom to vomit." Also: "The mildew of envy is a living, corroding organism in the corridors...
...camera slowly zooms toward Hopkins as his mouth hangs open and his eyes stare unblinking. He suppresses a scream and then a wince as horror replaces terror and sorrow replaces horror on his face. Later, when Treves displays Merrick before the audience of physicians, he must describe, in detail, his physical distortions. Hopkins delivers these lines quickly, his short clipped sentences and detached, analytical tone fighting the emotion that threatens to crack his voice...
Reagan has not talked about other phases of foreign policy in great detail during the campaign, but his general ideas come through plainly enough. He thinks little of the way Jimmy Carter's human rights policy has been applied. He feels that approach has been feckless and hypocritical because it undermined loyal allies like the late Shah of Iran. Preventing "additional Cubas" in Central America must take priority over moral preachments...
...Meyer concedes that it is precisely this restlessness of intellect that enables Sagan to see the broader picture, letting him point out, for example, where biology and chemistry converge with astronomy. Says another scientist: "Sagan can separate the momentous from the minute. He can tell the story without cluttering detail...