Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shrewd presence. "I've seen David in a room full of people, acting like he was reading the newspaper," says Jo Harvey Allen, who enlivens the movie with her periodic appearances as the Lying Woman. "Two weeks later, he would make some comment about who said what, some tiny detail. He doesn't miss anything." On screen, as True Stories' Narrator chatting to the camera or wandering through the action in a red Chrysler convertible, there is something both warming and ominous about him. The voice, maybe: flat, arrhythmic, dispensing stream-of- consciousness folk wisdom ("Things that never had names...
...variety of reasons the rents were unrealistically low in 1967, and the normal General Adjustment cannot ensure rents which will recover current operating costs and provide a fair net income. The Individual Rent Adjustment process provides an avenue of redress for these cases. It requires landlords to substantiate in detail their increased expenses...
Segal says he went to Bailey "to see that the history was accurate in its essentials." He says, "I wasn't concerned with every single factual detail, but I was concerned that overall it was accurate in tone...
...Symphony, launched the nation's eighth repository of presidential papers. Much of Carter's energy since he left the White House has gone into planning the center, raising money to fund it ("humiliating," he complained) and donning a hard hat to oversee the construction with his characteristic attention to detail. The 130,000-sq.- ft. interior houses a library of some 27 million presidential documents, a museum whose exhibits include electronic quizzes that let visitors play at making policy, and quarters for a think tank that, under the aegis of Emory University, will study and try to help resolve international...
...Secretary Bennett's speech raises important questions about the role of universities and the education they offer. Instead of pursuing the questions in an informed and sober manner, he has followed his penchant for delivering highly publicized polemics against educational practices which he has not studied in detail and policies with which he happens todisagree," Bok said in a statement about thespeech which will be delivered in Sanders Theatertoday...