Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feels is based on an indiscriminate fear of Communism. His characters are hardly more than clothespins colored to represent bureaucratic types. His locale is Puerto Santos, a banana republic where a moderate liberal ousts an overripe dictator. This causes a Washington minicrisis, which Galbraith examines in intimate and knowing detail...
...mannerisms. One was Bessie Brewer, the rooming-house manager, who recalls quite clearly the killer's looks, height (about 6 ft.), age (30-32), build (roughly 165 Ibs. and slender) and accent ("He spoke just like any other Memphian," i.e., with a drawl). Other witnesses recounted in detail how a man of that description ran from the rooming house at the time of the shooting (6:01 p.m.), leaped into a white Mustang with no front license plate (all Tennessee cars have two), and then "laid rubber" up the road. Those clues-plus a total reward offer...
Ulbricht's new constitution is more ominous for what it omits. The new document has dropped entirely the sections from the 1949 law that guaranteed freedom of artistic expression, academic pursuits and scientific inquiry. The 1949 constitution spelled out in detail the rights of both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to give religious instruction in schools, enjoy state protection of religious ceremonies and receive financial support through government-collected taxes. But the new constitution makes no mention whatsoever of the rights of churches. Many East German Protestants fear that Ulbricht will use this ambiguity as a lever to force...
Just examines the now familiar ambiguities of the war with detail that is not often found in books of this kind. The language barrier, he notes, is so great that neither English nor Vietnamese can be successfully translated one into the other. He points out that since Vietnamese verbs do not change tense, the Vietnamese sense of time is indefinite. More important, perhaps, is the absence of the personal pronoun "I." Because Vietnamese speak of themselves in the third person, "a man's identity, his sense of himself, is always in relation to something, or someone else-usually something...
Sorting out the sex lives, remoralizing he turpitude, and tracking down Benesch at the same time, makes for a taut, tough film that manages to survive such ludicrous lines as "This adultery is a lonely business, isn't it?" Commendably long on documentary detail about police procedure, Madigan is refreshingly short on sadism. Henry Fonda is at his uptight best as the up-from-the-ranks commissioner, so righteous that as a cop on the beat he sent back the butcher's Christmas turkey. Richard Widmark is engaging as the detective who lives "on the arm"-accepting...