Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This story is used not as an excuse for histrionic heroics but as a basis for a good deal of dogged, specific detail about men at war. While the paratroops struggle through the jungle, the camera peers ahead of them and on all sides, at silent spaces of water, at cryptic screens of leaves, and each of these inhuman shots is charged alike with menace and monotony. When the besieged survivors make a climactic last stand on a hilltop, and darkness swarms in with the enemy, the screen is so dark that the audience is almost as confused...
...timing, scope and coordination of new and even more powerful blows [against] Germany . . . have been fully agreed and planned in detail...
...Moravian Gate. President Bierut discussed two territorial divisions-East Prussia and the former Czech industrial district of Teschen-in detail. Poland and Russia's common frontier in East Prussia, he said, had not yet been worked out. But since there were many Lithuanians living around Königsberg, he presumed that that section of East Prussia would be incorporated in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic. Bierut "hoped and believed" that the Teschen question could be settled amicably with the Czech Government. In any case, Teschen would remain Polish...
...family on which Dr. Richardson reports in most detail included Martin Q, fortyish, "a little man with a pinched expression and a furtive look" who averaged under $20 a week from WPA or Home Relief, his plump, aggressive, somewhat stupid wife, their daughters Agnes, 19, and Catherine...
...Hopkins Big Four) to illustrate medical and surgical texts by Hopkins writers. He practiced and taught a kind of work that color photography has never been able to supplant. An artist with a firsthand knowledge of anatomy can paint the steps of an operation without any confusing detail, leaving out the blood, swabs and the forest of clamps which clutter a photograph...