Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee is encouraging those who signed the petition to write the President and explain their objections to the Administration's policy in Vietnam in greater detail. Any more detailed statement by the leaders of the committee could not be representative of all the signers of the petition, according to Salvador E. Luria, professor of Biology at M.I.T...
...only a handful of foreign reporters are permitted in Peking, and they get most of their information from Red Guard posters and pamphlets; it was, for example, the Toronto Globe and Mail's David Oancia who discovered the Mao challenge last week. But though reports often clashed in detail, they left little doubt that the height of the battle was approaching between Mao and his hand-picked heir, Marshal Lin Piao, on the one hand, and the more pragmatic and liberal Politburo faction headed by Chinese President Liu Shao-chi on the other. The Yugoslav news agency...
Swelling the Inventory. To combat the perennial returnee, department stores have developed a variety of ploys. One Philadelphia matron who tried to bring back a sexy nightgown that her husband had given her was told in detail by an artful clerk of the care her husband had taken in selecting it. "After all," cooed the clerk, "isn't it better for you to have it than some other woman?" The lady kept the gown...
...some distant town whose citizens are as ignorant about the crime as possible. A sensible remedy, but increasingly dubious when it comes to notorious "national" crimes. In the age of mass magazines, wire services and network TV, how can any living American avoid hearing, seeing and reading every detail, rumor and opinion...
Director Zetterling's style reveals her as a cinemagpie. Her symbols are bad Bergman, her decor is awful Ophuls, her decadence is phony Fellini. When in doubt, she bares somebody's breasts; when inspired, she mounts an orgy. Her episodes redound with explicit detail, and frame by frame they are morbidly fascinating to look at. Unfortunately, the frames add up to nothing more than an album of porny photographs, and they do these things better in France. Or even in Tijuana...