Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laughs, American Werewolf displays a classic Landis weakness. Almost every one of the film's creative elements, from characters to special effects, shows a degree of thought and attention to detail most youth comedies do without. Yet all the effort--clever dialogue, gruesome special effects, expertly choreographed car crashes--exists to propel an idea that is, well, dumb. Landis made a werewolf movie that is nothing more than a werewolf movie; a pity, because it could have conveyed more profound sentiments than "Yikes!" Landis said he got the idea in 1969, when while traveling through Yugoslavia, he saw a ritual...
Steven Holl's precise, highly wrought store and apartment interiors are austere and dreamy, a combination of effects not regularly encountered outside of Japan. The attention to surface detail is almost excessive. Glass panes are sandblasted and etched with miniature geometric murals. When Holl has room to move around (for example, in his designs for a retail and residential building, as yet unbuilt, at Florida's Seaside), his work seems sublime rather than precious or cramped...
Under the provisions of the exclusionary rule, "the police have to describe in precise detail what they expect to find," Tucker said. "They have to say 'When we go to this person's house, we have to find this and this.' If not, the case is thrown out as invalid...
...Jacobs thought McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who had been assigned to the same unit as Robertson, had once singled out the evangelist as a hawkish conservative who had avoided combat service. Jacobs, who served as a combat infantryman with the Marines in Korea, asked McCloskey to provide greater detail...
...case alarm other NATO members. "The Europeans believe that World War III would be inevitable if there were no strategic deterrent protecting them. The idea of relying exclusively on conventional weapons distresses them, especially those who remember World War II. These are matters that should be considered in detail, if negotiations resume in a realistic manner and are not based on a Star Wars fantasy...