Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story "The Case of the Purloined Pages" [Feb. 27], you state that Publisher Rupert Murdoch signed a secrecy agreement before seeing a summary of H.R. Haldeman's book, and that an unauthorized detail from the book then appeared in the New York Post and New York magazine. Not only did Mr. Murdoch never sign an agreement, as you reported; he never saw the book in any form...
...about to throw the snowball, I found a snow-lady carved beautifully in every detail in the arms of John Harvard, with her bottom resting partly on Harvard's lap and partly on the open book that appears on the statue...
...operation originated, and in the U.S., Canada and Germany. Still, doctors point out that these patients have not yet been studied long enough to determine for sure whether the surgery is superior to other treatment or even to none at all. These very questions will now be examined in detail by an international team of neuroscientists led by Dr. H.J.M. Barnett of University Hospital, London, Ont., and financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The team expects to study 1,000 stroke-prone patients in medical centers round the world. Half of them will receive the operation; the other...
OBVIOUSLY, HOUSE productions cannot afford to spend much money on sets, but that does not excuse the lack of imaginative detail in Wyke's drawing-room. It was a clever idea to turn the Leverett House Old Library around on its axis, so to speak, converting the staircase that the audience descends into the theater into the staircase of Wyke's mansion. Beyond that, however, there is only a smallish fireplace, some dull furniture and a few half-hearted pokes at interesting knick-knacks. To convey Wyke's obsession with sophisticated games, Garry gives us a few propped-up commercial...
...yardstick, poking and measuring the dancing as though fitting a suit of clothes; at another point a group labors through a sequence of banal repetitions, stopping and starting on a rhythmic "hut!" from Cunningham. And while the program listing outlined the dance's sequence in painstaking detail--the segments solemnly labelled "Trio for 3 or 4," "Sextet for 5 or 6"--onstage it was impossible to tell them apart. A choreographer who has been criticized for eliminating dance's external structure appears to be saying, "Here's a dance full of overt structures--and look how silly...