Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STORY OF ENGLISH (PBS). From the Anglo-Saxon invasion in A.D. 449 through the feminist incursions of the 1970s, the development of a language is recounted in fascinating detail by Robert MacNeil...
...juveniles playing mock war games, while the "grownups recognize this disaster for what it is, a calamity for the nation." So stuffy an outburst is rare for Broder, but it illustrates an attitude common this time in press coverage. Print all the facts you can find (often in numbing detail), but mute the rhetoric. It is as if journalists, as well as opposition politicians, want to avoid appearing guilty of "breaking another President," knowing that their own reputations are also somehow at stake, along with those of the President and the President...
...this was the age of Rockefeller Center, not of the banal glass box) hinted at vastly oversized Mayan temples; the contrast between glittering surface and deep wells and slots of shadow suggested exuberance and secrecy conjoined, the "metropolitan style" of Big Business. Instead of quoting Gothic or Renaissance detail as an indirect sign of quality, the whole tower changed into a business logo, architecture as advertisement -- the archexample being William Van Alen's Chrysler Building, 1928-31, with friezes of hubcaps and wheels, gargantuan winged chrome radiator ornaments and stainless-steel finial...
Drawing on public and private collections all over America, but especially in New York, the curators of this show have done a wonderful job of bringing all this, and more, together. At last one can see, in full detail, how the mass- produced, democratic nature of American machine-based design gave it a quite different flavor from French art deco, which was less a response to the myth of modernity than a continuation, by souped-up means, of the high luxury tradition of ebeniste furniture. The work of painters and sculptors was far less important to this process than that...
...about urban turmoil in the years before London had police (his detective, named George Man, is a sort of civic night watchman with an awesome sense of duty). Heller's second novel, Man's Storm (Scribner's; 196 pages; $13.95), is in the same vein and invokes in vivid detail the consequences of an actual hurricane recorded by the writer Daniel Defoe, who appears as an ancillary character...