Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attention to detail is especially important. Approximately every page-and-a-half, find an adjective or adverb. Underline it twice, draw an arrow to it, and write "Really?" Then, underline every twelfth line and place a question mark in the margin...
...think a talk like Adhe's brings a world of experience that is not normally accessible to the Harvard student," said Metta McGarvey, a second-year graduate student at the Divinity School and one of the organizers of the event. "I think very few people ever read in detail about these kinds of abuses and it's even more extraordinary to meet someone who's actually gone through all this...
...Arthur Shapiro and his wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp and chuckle...
...about 1:25 p.m. a pedestrian accidentally walked through orange cones at a detail on Mt. Auburn Street walked into a trench, fell and cut her hand...
...Gelernter is an amazing and gifted writer [BOOK EXCERPT, Sept. 22]. His very personal account of violence and recovery after surviving a Unabomber attack carries the reader along with him, inside his mind and heart, from moment to moment. Gelernter's courage is in his compelling honesty and intimate detail. Any of us who dare to even attempt to write must thank him for the gift of this account. BRUCE T. WILLIAMS Renton, Wash...