Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic plot points are clear enough so that Rooks need not specify detail: we never learn the details of his cure, the motivations or interpretations of his behavior during drug withdrawal, or whether the recurring people in his visions actually exist. When Rooks does add detail, it is always relevant; talking about his life at 18-years-old, he describes himself as a creation of 42nd Street and American movies, this partially explaining two drug experiences where Rooks pictures himself as Al Capone and as Dracula (two sequences film critics have incorrectly found self-conscious and arbitrary...
...immensely popular teacher at Shady Hill, Ryerson is now the major force behind the Palfrey Street School. Working with his wife, Alice, the school psychologist, he is putting into practice his own theory of liberal education, teaches daily English classes, maintains a constant personal involvement in every detail of the problems of individual students and faculty members, as well as fulfilling his administrative duties...
...deaths in the history of mankind have been so minutely scrutinized as that of John F. Kennedy. Every detail of that fateful November day has been exhumed, examined and crammed into some theory or other, ranging from the plausible to the inconceivable. This week both LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post offer more intriguing bits and pieces on the assassination, but regrettably nothing so conclusive as to put an end to all the speculation...
People People. Zieff, who has made 200 commercials in the past six years, is obsessed with detail; he shoots 9,000 ft. of film to get a usable 90 ft. He demands that his sets have a lived-in look-right down to scuff marks on the door. For a takeoff on old aviation movies for Utica Club beer, he screened the 1938 movie Test Pilot to see exactly how Clark Gable flipped back his goggles. For a series of quick shots focusing on a variety of stomachs for Alka-Seltzer, he spent ten days "interviewing abdomens," auditioned 40 belly...
...modest, retiring man, Maersk McKinney MØller credits his success to two things: his grandfather's star and his father's motto: "No detail is too small. No effort too great...