Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maude's lens included D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Raymond Chandler and Robert Frost, "the biggest son of a bitch I was ever to photograph." E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann get flattering portraits; and a dinner with Graham Greene is recalled in vivid detail and charming conversation...
Many of the juiciest conclusions of the book have been, as it were, leaked to the world by Gail Sheehy, author of the best-selling Passages, which set forth the basic thesis enunciated at greater length and in more detail here: that all people go through an age-linked series of developmental stages in adult life, each with its specific psychological and social tasks and each the necessary base on which to begin the next phase of adult development...
...that time of year again. My chance to make all you "baseball experts" out there look so very very foolish. There's really no need to go into detail. This is an incredibly difficult quiz, and while it is neither as long or as well thought out as the gonad-cracker that I served up last spring to you, I'm pretty confident you won't do any better this year. As a matter of fact, I think you'd have a better chance of finding a leather-bound copy of J.H. Parry's Trade and Dominion than...
...became available to TIME last week and will go on sale in bookstores next week, contribute relatively little that is new to his Watergate story. But anyone who is interested in international politics will find in his 1,120-page volume a mountain of both intriguing and tedious personal detail on Nixon's pursuit of detente with Soviet leaders, his opening of diplomatic relations with Communist China, and his ending the U.S. involvement in Viet...
...Brezhnev's driving. I presented him with a dark blue Lincoln Continental. He got behind the wheel. The head of my Secret Service detail went pale as I climbed in and we took off down one of the narrow roads that run around the perimeter of Camp David. At one point there is a very steep slope with a sign at the top reading, "Slow, Dangerous Curve." Even driving a golf cart down it, I had to use the brakes in order to avoid going off the road. Brezhnev was driving more than 50 miles an hour...