Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: The winning ways of a tall baseball tale are sabotaged by sloppy detail work...
Host McGavin acted impressed: These demonstrations "support the biblical story of the Deluge in every detail." One viewer who had good reason to doubt that statement -- and many others -- was Gerald Larue, a professor emeritus of biblical history and archaeology at the University of Southern California. A member of the Skeptics Society, an organization devoted to investigating pseudo science, Larue had been interviewed for an earlier Sun International production and, after seeing that show, felt he had been set up as a straw man. It inspired him to coach George Jammal, an acquaintance, to perpetrate the hoax, intended to expose...
...nurse named Wali al-Ghazali and a coffee-shop owner named Raad al-Assadi, told FBI agents that their target was definitely George Bush. The agents, who had journeyed to Kuwait to interview the suspects, found that they told the same story down to the smallest, unforeseeable detail. Al-Ghazali even said that if the car explosives failed, he was supposed to don a bomb belt and rush toward the former President during his visit to Kuwait two months...
...assembling the evidence against Iraq, FBI agents traveled back and forth to Kuwait many times. The basic plot was known in detail: "The bomb was to be placed in an area where it could be detonated as President Bush's motorcade was to go by," a top intelligence official said. "The bomb, which weighed 175 lbs., had a fairly large lethal radius. Al-Ghazali was to move within a distance of 300 or 500 feet and detonate the bomb manually, using the radio remote-control device." If that plan failed, al-Ghazali was supposed to move the car to Bush...
...passion for detail paid off. Bassett's impersonation of Turner is the kind of star-making turn that every actress dreams of -- and practically every black actress in Hollywood wanted. Halle Berry and Robin Givens were among the finalists for the role that went to Bassett, best known previously for Spike Lee's Malcolm X, in which she played Betty Shabazz, wife of the Black Muslim leader...