Word: detailer
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These portraits introduce charmingly aphoristic essays filled with lively, unexpected detail (did you know that Andean peasants can identify 300 varieties of potato?). In the town of Cognac, which produces a world-famous, tongue-loosening brandy, Zeldin asked a housewife, With whom do you have your most useful talks? Her answer, "With my dog. He really understands me." This anecdote leads into Zeldin's discussion of conversation and of one of his heroes, Socrates. In an age when monologue was dominant-gods or kings lectured while common folk listened-Socrates developed the revolutionary notion of the dialogue. Another conversational revolutionary...
...Trade Center. The eventual explosion killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Within days the main suspects in the bombing were arrested--except for Yousef, who, using the name Abdul Basit, escaped on a plane to Pakistan just hours after the explosion. Says Dwyer: ``He masterminded every detail of the plot, including his own escape, which he pulled off more expeditiously than anyone else.'' Yousef's capture was the culmination of one of the most extensive and painstaking manhunts in U.S. history. If he is found guilty, he may be imprisoned for life, without the possibility of parole...
...directed the premiere of every other Wilson play, had to bow out because of a health problem. Scott Bradley's soaring set--the backyard of a ramshackle tenement building, complete with earnest little garden and the tallest, steepest stairway since Jacob's ladder--is abundant in telling detail. Along with Constanza Romero's flamboyant costumes, it brings to vivid life the 1948 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that is the locale of the play...
...violation of Catharine's privacy, since by registering to have a user account she agreed to be added to the public database of users. Moreover, since address and phone information for students is part of the public record at Harvard, I could use the program "ph" (described in detail last semester in this column) to find out exactly where Catharine lives...
...This was the first year to discuss community service in detail. It was something that had always come up in the past. But no one ever sat down and came up with a plan with what we're going to do at this point, this point and this point," says Tiffany C. Graham '96, a former BSA board member and current cabinet member of the Phillips Brooks House Association's executive board...