Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They Never Said It goes a little gung-ho on detail. Some things are better left unsaid. Although comparing the misquotes with the real thing is fun, reading descriptions of how statements got mangled tends to get boring...
...Brinkley's journalistic devotion to detail comes out in the military scenes, which comprise some of the weaker parts of the novel. The exact effects of SA-7's, Deadeyes, Redeyes, etc., etc., are unnecessary additions to an otherwise compelling plot...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...Shaw's late work and life. The prose was always better than that of Judith Krantz and her ilk, Shnayerson notes, even in the most improbable tales. Moreover, he argues, the glittering "sweep" of these 71 years in themselves represents an artful construction, worthy of the sometimes numbing detail with which he recites old guest lists...
...from suburban Los Angeles" felt "scarcely more connection than the average white" between Asian life and his own. "I read Pearl Buck in high school and didn't see anything wrong. I still like Charlie Chan movies. The whole thing about being of Chinese descent seemed an interesting detail, as if I had red hair. But not everyone saw it that way." So Hwang embarked on Asian studies in an adolescent search for identity: "I got more and more interested in responding to stereotypes by painting our own portraits." From that political impulse, an artistic career was born...