Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devoted reader of true crime stories and a demon for detail, Burrough weaves suspense into his tales of high finance and intrigue. "I try to write somewhat the way a good murder mystery is written," he explains. "My stories sometimes read as if ((LBO king)) Henry Kravis were approaching with an ax instead of a buyout offer." Burrough may have hit the peak of fascination with 1980s whodunits. As the 1990s wear on, his agent Andrew Wylie says with literary disdain, readers are likely to become more interested in advice books on "how to stave off disaster...
...production with so much scope and innovation, technical quibbles can't detract from the overall grandeur. With a little more attention to detail, Burton's next dramatic effort should be magnificent...
...Dead Girl is imbued with a poignant warmth. The digressive book is given to flashback and careful detail, and Thernstrom writes intimately about Lee and their frank discussions. It seems odd to some that events like Lee sabotaging her own chances of going to MIT, or Lee's first sexual encounter and pregnancy scare would be included in a popular work like The Dead Girl. But in reading, it becomes obvious that Thernstrom wants--indeed needs--the reader to know the artistic and capricious girl she knew. And although Lee, in Thernstrom's candid depiction of her, is not always...
...addition, Gerstein said that in an incidenttwo weeks ago a close aide to the prince verballythreatened his life in the presence of HarvardPolice Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, who is heading upthe prince's security detail. Murphy refused totake a report, Gerstein said...
...council's invitation to Demong asks her to to detail the precise criteria HRE uses to determine who gets housing. HRE currently owns 715 units of rent-controlled housing, 75 percent which is rented to Cambridge residents who are not affiliated to the University, according to HRE literature...