Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outlined "in minute detail" the cycle of plays (which had grown to eleven) to be called (according to rumor) A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed...
...character. This criticism is beside the point. The novel in no-wise constitutes an apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren's thought. For despite the novel's immersion in a vast welter of detail about Southern life, "All The King's men" is fundamentally a parable of Evil...
...sorts of little things, such as being sure to keep the fork in the left hand on account of that's the way Europeans eat, were impressed on the trainees. One hopeless jackass got tortured and killed later on in the movie because he slipped up on this very detail. Ladd, however, doesn't make any mistakes, and is the one member of the team "Applejack," sent to France to destroy a key railroad tunnel and to pick up sundry vital information, who comes out alive...
...only did the Episcopal Church take the initiative in the general ecumenical movement, but it was upon its initiative that negotiations with the Presbyterian Church were begun. . . . The plan which the majority now presents deliberately omits for further consideration certain questions of detail (the functions of bishops in the united church, for example) and goes directly to the crucial matters of episcopacy, the ministry and sacraments. On these and other questions a surprising identity in principle was discovered...
...wife (June Vincent) of the man condemned as the killer, try to find out who really did it. In the process they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts, and is treated, on a visit to a grade-B hot spot...