Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STORIES are pieces which fit together to form one composite and complex picture. Martone commands a style well-suited to this type of writing often manages to cross the border which separates prose and poetry, thanks to his fine eye and ear for detail and his effective use of evocative imagery. Long roads, Shiny cars, pearls and falling bombs appear and reappear-sometimes as characters in their own right. Suggestive images are the chief vehicles of expression; dialogue is absent, and even the speaking, external voice is rate. In this silent landscape, only isolated single phrases are whispered or shouted...
After waiting on the Logan Airport tarmac for the President, Shamie joined him in the seemingly mile-long presidential motorcade and hugged so close to him on the podium that he appeared to be protecting Reagan from his own security detail...
Dubbing her the "Mayflower Madam," the tabloids rushed into killer-competitive frenzies over her story. The New York Post explained her impeccable lineage in breathless detail and bragged to its readers that it had obtained nude photos of Barrows taken during a 1973 European tour. Alas, the editors informed somewhat baffled readers, "they were not suitable for publication in a family newspaper." When the Daily News printed a revealing snapshot, along with an exclusive interview with Barrows after her arrest, the Post promptly splashed across half a page its picture of the young socialite reclining naked upon an Amsterdam hotel...
Walt Rostow, an archetype of the best and the brightest, spoke slowly and carefully, recalling in vivid detail a meeting that took place in April 1967. General William Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, had asked for 200,000 more troops. President Lyndon Johnson and top aides pressed for a date by which the American forces would win. As jurors in a Manhattan federal courtroom listened intently, the former National Security Adviser said he had no recollection of Westmoreland's having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This...
...pages and pages of criticism directed solely at Washington's approach to the talks. Intra-Administration rivalry, attempts to solidify the support of the Europeans, the "public relations" push for domestic support of our position--Talbott describes it all in excruciating and damning (at least in his eyes) detail. His acknowledgement, that the Soviets never accepted the West's intention to deploy at least some missiles to counter the SS-20 sneaks by in a glancing reference. The Soviets' ridiculous opening proposal, in which they offered to participate in creation of a "nuclear-free Europe" (thereby leaving the Europeans...