Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...majority of the etchings date from Rembrandt's high Baroque period, characterized by the use of light and intense detail to create scenes of drama and motion. Perhaps the best example of this style is the famous etching of Christ Healing the Sick, also known as the Hundred Guilder Print. In this intricate print Christ stands in the middle of a dark cave, illuminating the poor Christians who have gathered around him to receive relief from their pain. Rembrandt depicts the sick in impressive detail, from the emotions on their faces to the folds of their turbans...
...course, one of this spring's new additions to the Core Curriculum, will attempt to detail the change of Western political institutions from the end of the Middle Ages to the rise of the welfare state, a period of about 800 years...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
When he thinks about it at all, which he tries hard not to do, Ali Basa can remember in detail exactly when his luck ran out. It was shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at a point in the Kuwaiti desert about 14 miles north of the Saudi border. On eight previous smuggling runs, the midday heat had protected Basa's overland enterprise. The Iraqis, everyone knew, were creatures of habit who invariably shunned the harsh...
...historical content too the Cartoon History shows the acute attention to detail and penchant for amusing but pertinent sidetracks that characterizes the self-educated layperson. Historians tend to either bog down in superfluous facts or theorize their subjects into oblivion. Gonick, however, knows how to set up a the basics of a culture and then fill in the reader's knowledge with tantalizing facts. His footnotes (three panels at the bottom of the page set off with a foot drawing an asterix), which he uses to give background or explain historical controversies (such as the Egyptian version of the Trojan...