Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theodore Hesburgh, 48, Notre Dame. Freewheeling and decisive, he roams from Taiwan paddy fields to ice floes in Antarctica, retains an amazing grasp of detail of all he sees and hears, and considers his latest project, organizing an ecumenical study institute in Jerusalem, "a very big thing-but something you do before breakfast." He is a member of the National Science Board, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, consultant to the State Department. He spends 120 to 150 days a year off campus...
Sandra, though lento-paced and pretentious, does create a bewitching atmosphere of decadence. While the old, ordered world passes into limbo, Visconti savors every detail of a cavernous manse where each drafty, half-lit corridor and every gleaming bit of crystal augurs ill. But finally the decor becomes a bore, and even Visconti's human characters seem used up, lifeless, set into place like figures in a faded tapestry...
...removing Cambridge's city manager has turned the Council into a curious cross between a political horror show and an endless teach-in on city government. Most of the recent meetings have been filled by the marathon testimony of suspended city manager John J. Curry '19, who has explained -- detail by detail -- how he ran Cambridge for nearly 14 years. But the long hearings have been punctuated by almost daily verbal battles between the four councillors supporting Curry and the majority that wants to replace him with Josph A. DeGuglielmo...
REPULSION. The nightmare deeds of a fragile blonde psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) are shown in excruciating detail by a master of the macabre, Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water...
Though rich in startling, unsentimental detail, Eroica's disillusioned view of history never comes to wider focus upon a compelling character or a whole truth. Against the background of Poland in 1957, however, its very ambiguity is provocative-partly an elegy for individualism, partly an indictment of a people destined to trade old masters...