Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOCKWOOD CONCERN, by John O'Hara. The "concern" is that of the tough, grasping Lockwoods of eastern Pennsylvania, who want to turn themselves into gentlemen but don't want to give up the morals of the coal patch. The period detail is meticulous, but the book as a whole, like most of the author's long novels, will be useful principally to the reader who wants to commit O'Hara-kiri...
...last week became something of a cause celebre in Washington, D.C., when he was classified 4-F by the Army because of a bad knee. The Pentagon defended its action in a 600-word statement describing Joe's knee in intimate detail. "This knee," said the Pentagon, "has had the medial meniscus [cartilage] removed; it is a knee which shows that the patient has a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament; it is a knee that has pathology on the lateral side, most likely a torn posterior third of the lateral meniscus with osteoarthritic changes." It was, the report...
Saigon's two English-language news papers - the Daily News and the Post -cover the Viet Nam war in considerable detail, but what really excites them is activity on the home front. Without leaving Saigon, their reporters uncover weirder and wilder stories than the battlefield could ever produce. Crime and sex are embellished with garbled gram mar, misspellings and typos. One typically zestful Post story began last week...
...building where the Saturn V will be assembled. "You could put the Pentagon and the Chicago Merchandise Mart inside it," said NASA guide Henry Decker, who can tell you every detail of every building on the Cape...
...backgrounds of The Red Desert serve as objective correlatives for the inner states of the various characters When Giuliana first appears, Antonioni gives us long shots of the chemical factory, filled with confusing detail, for Giuliana remains detached from modern life and very confused by it. But when Ugo, the engineer, is shown, we enter the factory for interior shots or else view particular pieces of apparatus outside. As Giuliana and Corrado begin to fall in love and Giuliana begins to open herself up to the world again, Antonioni takes us to the radar installations at Medicina, where the tall...