Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time nearly all physicists agreed that light consisted of waves whose properties had been observed in great detail. The old theory (favored by Newton) that light was speeding corpuscles had been abandoned. But the theory had one great advantage: corpuscles can move through space by themselves. Unlike waves, they need no medium to carry them...
Waters is beautifully lighted and photographed. Confirmed admirers of French filmmaking will also find it sparkling with the usual Gallic excellences: subtle underplaying, sharp character drawing, loving attention to significant detail, a shrewd understanding of the overtones to complex human relationships...
Talking Pottery. The Mochicas, and most other ancient Peruvians, buried sculptured pots with their dead. With painstaking detail, and sometimes with hair-raising sound effects, these pots show birth and death, work and play, war and worship. One famed example of the Peruvian pottery art shows a surgeon at work on a woman's back. When filled with water and tipped back & forth, the pot gives a long-drawn sigh, then a loud scream of pain...
Almost every detail of the La Salle Hotel tragedy was duplicated in miniature four days later when fire swept the 55-year-old, 150-room Canfield Hotel at Dubuque, Iowa. The Canfield fire also was discovered shortly after midnight in a cocktail room called the Red Lounge. It swept out to rage in the lobby, trapped 129 guests in smoke-filled rooms upstairs. Most escaped down ladders and fire escapes. Fifteen died that morning-two in attempting jumps into fire nets...
...make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed." But he never said exactly what, except for his reading & writing, went on there, and no one else seems to know in detail. It is certain that he was disappointed when editors and publishers showed little interest in his work, but even disappointed authors do not usually bury themselves for years to pore over colonial history and consider the effects of guilt and evil on the soul...