Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic British understatement: the two had just initialed a joint declaration that defines in detail the terms under which China will recover sovereignty over the crown colony of Hong Kong in 1997, when Britain's 99-year lease on more than 90% of the territory expires. Two years and two days after China and Britain began the contentious bargaining process, both countries could join at last in a common sigh of relief: the Chinese because they had re-established their claim to the opulent, gold-plated trophy of Hong Kong, just in time to help make their National...
...Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person, and much of its detail is so close to Arlen's life that it is tempting to read the book as therapy or revenge. But it works, elegiacally and sometimes forcefully, as fiction...
...process requires painstaking attention to detail and a fair degree of endurance. One frame of Topper called for 30 different color assignments. Although the computer can carry most of those colors through the 24 frames that make up each second of the movie, it still takes technicians an average of four hours to finish one minute of color videotape. When it is done right, however, the effects are stunning...
...from becoming, mere caricaturization. Explaining the difference between venial and mortal sins, Sister Mary lists sex outside of marriage, masturbation and hijacking as some of the more serious offenses. A parody of the Catholic belief that suffering is good, her eyes twinkle in delight as she explains in gory detail Christ's sufferings on the cross. Further, she insists that her best pupil who had her first period in gym class was really experiencing a stigmata...
...gift for subversive gab: "Nietzsche generalized that all good things approach their goals crookedly, and so for very crooked reasons I'll put his idea to the test." But page by page, scene by scene, Kennedy's prose is lean, energetic and grounded in the detail and humanity that keep Bailey from becoming that fatal cliche, larger than life...