Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cracking wise from the back of the room in fifth grade. I get a surge of pleasure each time I score with my New York Times shtick: "The Times still hasn't figured out how to handle gossip. What they need is a special page brimming with dishy detail called 'News We Disapprove Of.' Or, this being the Times, 'News of Which We Disapprove...
...story was different. Thompson's expedition brought up a large part of the Central America's gold bars, dust and nuggets, valued at nearly $1 billion in 1989 dollars. It wasn't easy money, but it sure is a great story. Kinder tells it in fascinating, exhaustive detail, including the following information: as part of the process of securing rights to a wreck, marine law requires that you file a lawsuit. Against whom--Neptune? Close; you sue the wreck itself. Just lower a lawyer in the submersible's claw, and res gestae, the loot is yours...
...Interviewees consistently say that the sense of community, the thread that once held urban cities together, has frayed and, in some cases, split altogether. They talk about neighborhoods polarized by racism, gang violence, drug proliferation, loss of cultural identity and domestic violence. The candor is stark; the level of detail often horrifying...
...careful to point out the flaws of scapegoating, they too jump on the blame band wagon. Ostensibly, a cause for this economic hardship is required in their analysis; they attribute it as "demonic" legislation passed by congress. But an egregious analytical flaw creeps in. The authors never explicitly detail the legislation or explore how it splintered the inner city. As a result, it becomes unsatisfying to read hundreds of pages of inner city problems and receive only casual reference to what caused them...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer," marks the centenary of his death and is by far the most lavish treatment that any Pre-Raphaelite has received from an American museum. It is large (more than 170 works), indeed exhaustive, and fairly glutted with scholarly detail. It is also spectacular, beautiful in patches and coldly, provokingly weird in others, sometimes both at once...