Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kraft also has more of a taste and talent for political detail work than the Georgians, in cluding Carter, whose disdain for party regulars was an asset during the campaign but has been a weakness in office. "Some things were falling between the cracks," acknowledges Jordan, who recommended that Kraft's $56,000-a-year fence-mending post be created...
...humming music he might have forgotten to include in the sound track. 'Easygoing' is not a quality he has. You know how Presidents age in office? If Beatty were President, either he would be dead after the first year or the country would be dead, because his attention to detail is maniacal...
...technical side of the production also shines. The set, a collection of period--piece furnishings, is both imaginative and functional. The props and lighting, which more often than not go overlooked in other shows, happily receive the proper attention here. The Subject Was Roses appears to thrive on detail: the authentic circa-1946 long-necked Ballantine bottles and the sunlight streaming in through the kitchen window during the morning scenes clearly illustrate the company's technical competence...
...later he got a call from the school's principal. One of the roamers kept singing over and over the song from "Raspberries." When he was asked to retell the story to students who had been absent, the boy went on for about 45 minutes, scarcely missing a detail...
Richardson prefers working the Houses to assignments in Harvard's museums--which is what his summer work entails. The museum detail is either boring--"once you've seen those picures for two or three days, you've had enough"--or hair-raising. School children are the worst; they dive under the cases holding the irreplaceable glass flowers in the Peabody Museum and Richardson's heart skips a beat. He yells at them like an Army sergeant, he says...