Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fourth. To Cincinnatians, every horrifying detail was already all too familiar. Mrs. Hochhausler, mother of nine, was the fourth middle-aged woman to die in similar fashion in the same seemingly safe suburban surroundings. Last Dec. 2, Mrs. Emogene D. Harringon, 56, wife of a University of Cincinnati professor, was strangled with a length of knotted plastic clothesline in the basement of her apartment building; she was raped. On April 3, Mrs. Lois Dant, 58, was bludgeoned, strangled with her own stocking, and raped in the living room of her first-floor apartment. On June 10, Mrs. Jeanette M. Messer...
Cloete writes with a wagonload of wooden cliches, a compelling wealth of historical detail, and a too, too tumescent indignation. He is a leading member of Britain's Anti-Slavery Society, and he provides an appendix showing that white-slave traffic is still surprisingly busy today. All the same, Cloete's outrage would be a little more convincing if his rapes, orgies, flagellations and assorted other perversions were described with a little less prurience...
...Ours is the greatest newspaper reading population in the world;...Every great and startling crime is paraded in their columns, with all the minuteness of detail that an eager competitor for public favor can supply.... In the case of a particularly audacious crime that has been widely discussed it is utterly impossible that any man of common intelligence, and not wholly secluded from society, should be found, who had not formed an opinion...
HITCHCOCK: Well, all detail in the literature of the camera applies to most situations. It is how you use the intimacy and detail. In Potemkin, of course, you have the permabulator going down the steps, and the incident is repeated several times at several angles -- you remember that. Well, I think it's a matter of using the language of the camera which is so flexible and free. The beauty of the camera is that you can photograph anything you want and make and comment you want...
QUESTION: Would you explain the shot in more detail...