Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adam Smith until he was 27, and it took him even longer to become a complete human being. In the first of a two-volume biography that promises to be definitive, Robert Skidelsky, a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick, England, illuminates sensitively and in great detail how the making of an economist finally coincided with the making...
...rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking, even as it makes At Close Range a sort of Atrocity Olympics captured in Super SloMo...
...fashioned digging also won a Pulitzer for the Miami Herald's Edna Buchanan, a police reporter for 20 years who can turn a 7-Eleven stickup into a compelling tale of Balzacian detail that illuminates the lives of robber and victim alike. The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader earned its first Pulitzer for a series that revealed payoffs to University of Kentucky basketball players. Jeffrey Marx, who shared the award with Michael York, is only 23 years...
...phase she will outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...
...patiently waiting for the follow up packet. I mean, of course, the packet which will detail the changes in Harvard's investment policies which the petition-nominated candidates are seeking, and their reasons for doing so. This packet, which I'm sure has been prepared in the spirit of fairness, will allow those of us who already received the administration's position to make an informed judgement...