Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced precisely the trashy counterculture it deserved, and also the trashy, unromantic criminal life it might have expected. Even if one could not entirely accept his relentlessly bleak view of contemporary life, there was a certain symbolic weight to Stone's characters, a naturalistic force and detail in his writing that carried the reader along, however glumly. The movie strips most of that texture away in order to concentrate on the action. The result is a succession of classic genre confrontations carried out by dispirited people, movement without brio or suspense. With all the violent interruptions, it is hard...
...rules for the conclave itself are fixed in punctilious detail. After a Mass of the Holy Spirit, the electors will retire into the Apostolic Palace at about 7 p.m. on Aug. 25. Paul was so concerned with protecting secrecy that the customary aides to Cardinals, known as conclavists, will be banned. Each Cardinal will take a lengthy oath, swearing "inviolable secrecy about each and every matter concerning the election of the new Pontiff." When the Cardinals are literally locked within the walls and the quarters screened for any bugging devices devices ? another Pauline directive? the meeting will begin...
...School Yearbook Parody. A precursor of Animal House (also co-written by Kenney), this work was a replica of a second-rate school annual, right down to the pushy ads for local merchants and the classmates' autographed cliches in the margins. The book is so rich in social detail that it brings a whole fictional town, Dacron, Ohio, to life. The new Sunday Newspaper Parody is the Dacron Republican-Democrat (slogan: One of America's Newspapers). The two parodies take aim at small-town American life in the '70's with the same spirit, and occasionally...
...might eventually lead them to some kind of independent vision. His influence on Alston Purvis (a former student of his at Yale) John Szarkowski and William Christenberry is obvious. There exists a common interest toward the inanimate, the objects and architecture of our environment. Purvis' color photographs mostly detail windows and doorways and explore the play of light in them. He exhibits the same fascination Evans does for the seemingly insignificant. Christenberry also becomes absorbed in Evans' attraction for objects; the descendance is conspicuous in his straight - on portraits of country buildings and graveyards. The examination of some...
...Callahan has told several of his stories to my students, and to your excellent article on how he has revived the art of storytelling [June 19] I can add only one detail. Jay is the master of his craft. He not only makes storytelling look easy, but he puts his listeners in touch with their own stories within themselves...