Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first World War. This, combined with the horrors of the trenches and the shock of being shot and bayoneted nearly to death, drove O.K. over the brink. He had a Munich dollmaker construct a soft, life-size, redhaired effigy of his former lover, fetishistically complete in every anatomical detail. The doll shared his bed and during the day he would dress it up and take it out. In Self- Portrait with Doll, 1920-21, Kokoschka is seen pointing with a woebegone expression at its sexual parts, presumably to indicate a cooling of the one- sided affair. Eventually, after...
...speeches, is trying to become less wooden. "You improve the more you speak," he says. "If you think I'm bad now, you should have seen me at the beginning. I'm up from zero." Having mastered what he calls his "inside game"--a thorough command of detail--he says he is working on his "outside game"--reaching voters with broad themes and symbols. Though Bradley can be standoffish to fellow Senators, he jokes easily with voters on the campaign trail. In an age of media-slick politicians, Bradley's very plainness can be refreshing. "There's a nice quiet...
Trying to get a grip on its system, NASA set up elaborate reporting channels that produced reams of paper. Quickly the paper became so plentiful that it masked rather than exposed the problems. The Rogers report is expected to detail the extraordinary tale of the now famous O rings, the synthetic-rubber circles, .28 in. thick and 37.5 ft. in circumference, designed to make certain that the superhot gases generated within each solid booster could not escape through the joints of the rocket's segments. When flames did penetrate a rocket joint on Challenger, they ignited the shuttle's external...
While the amount of detail presented at the Pelton trial was unusual, it was far from complete. Federal prosecutors charged that Pelton sold the Soviets information about five U.S. communication "projects," but they were identified merely as A through E and the way they functioned was described only cryptically. Hubert Atwater, a former co-worker at NSA, testified that Project A involved equipment that intercepted "a particular Soviet communications link." The Post reported that the operation used U.S. submarines operating in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the Soviet eastern coast. Another ex-colleague identified Project B as an "ongoing operation...
...like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista is hard to find; some analogy between cubist hide-and-seek and a real guerrilla's elusiveness got Rivera thinking about camouflage and disappearance...