Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the pair police sweated a full confession. They described the crime even down to the detail that Hart "struggled slightly" as they hoisted him over the rail. Their explanation of the murder: "We didn't want to bother lugging him around the countryside...
...detail is prominent, it will be, for Harvard at least, the exciting pace which the chapter called "Thursday" takes on, as the protagonist draws near his goal: graduation from college. Here--and no chauvinism can prompt such a feeling-- is a sport forever hallowed. Or rather, here are spots cherished for their associations, the West Court of Lowell House, the dimly illuminated arch of Sever's doorway, the strange Gothic allure of Memorial Hall, the quadrangle at Commencement with the fine clear voice of President Lowell declaring, "By virtue of authority delegated to me, I confer on you the first...
...flow in Mr. Laughton himself; he is equal to every demand, be it lusty humour or Henry's regal kind of lechery, and he has made Henry, although a buffoon, a superbly consistent and human one. No comic possibility of the Tudor coarseness has been left unexplored, no detail in palatial decor neglected, no outlet for photographic ingenuity closed...
...Humanity Uprooted," "Broken Earth," and "Red Bread," offer openings for such an apocrypha, his latest collation will give no satisfaction to those who think him a blind enthusiast. On the contrary it is only too apparent that he is leaning over backwards in pursuit of objectivity. He relates in detail the ghastly breakdown of the agricultural sector, asserts that the standard of living is lower after the Five Year Plan than before, and intimates that the political prisons are not the last word in humanitarian institutions...
...belong together: they have hinted that no such person as Hubert van Eyck ever existed. Nobody has ever denied that the two panels have been among the greatest treasures of the Leningrad Hermitage Museum for more than 80 years, that with their gay Flemish color, their microscopic detail yet breadth of execution-photographs of the tiny panels make them look like murals-they are among the most important paintings in the world. The Brothers van Eyck (Hubert 1366- 1426; John 1385-1441) used to be known as the inventors of oil painting. That they were not; oil as a binder...