Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program served during my tenure was the quickness with which I could be located in the event of a national emergency. This could have been accomplished by a semiannual questionnaire. I studied outdated manuals, and trained with obsolete weapons. For at least a year I was assigned to a detail assembling wall lockers. Upon completion of my six-year obligation, I felt I would have been as well prepared to defend my country not having attended a single weekday drill...
...coherent sentences. Mumbling and spewing obscenities as he staggered about the stage-which he had commandeered by threatening to beat up the previous M.C.-Mailer described in detail his search for a usable privy on the premises. Excretion, in fact, was his preoccupation of the night. "I'm here because I'm like L.B.J.," was one of Mailer's milder observations...
...cutouts and collages (a combination of pasting and painting on canvas) probably came from his childhood years when he watched his painter father, a professor of fine arts in Barcelona, correct his own oils by cutting out canvas pieces and gluing them on, rather than rubbing out the detail or beginning all over again. In the hands of Picasso and Georges Braque, collage became a favorite technique during the early years when they were inventing cubism together. For Boston-born Conrad Marca-Relli collage was a last resort. In 1953, while in Mexico, he ran out of oils and turned...
Most recently Marca-Relli has come back to working in canvas on canvas, and to his first love: the figure, or at least an abstract, anatomical detail. The challenge, he believes, is "to see if a certain figure can live alone. To see how far you can go without having it become boring, to keep it pulsating...
Useful Guide. Toynbee has a very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present...