Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentrate on a few key issues such as energy and the Panama Canal treaty, and thus dissipated much of his influence. He did not build the necessary crucial bridges to Capitol Hill; nor did he have the experienced staff to help. He often seemed to bog down in detail and yet to slight the routine requirements of the job, such as sometimes twisting congressional arms. He has not demonstrated quite the same ardor in the presidency that he did in the campaign...
...electronic brains was soon harnessed to answer a difficult question: Which young men could play successfully under Landry's byzantine flex defense and multiple offense? At Cowboy headquarters, part of the basement and a full wall upstairs are lined with 1,500 big black ledgers that detail the size, speed, strength and character of every professional football prospect known to man, God and the truly all-seeing and all-knowing: the Cowboys' scouts. Players from the franchise's early days recall a computer expert hired in 1962 to begin research on a programming system sophisticated enough to factor...
This is the story of the relationship between two boys born in 1900, and the story of the relationship between their families--one of which owns the land that the other tills. It is immense, overflowing with color and detail; unfortunately, it comes close to being indigestible...
...kind of sensuous enjoyment of the grotesque. At the film's end, scenes that made the audience shudder aloud in the opening few minutes are repeated; and now they seem commonplace, even acceptable, for the film had had far more brutal moments. At times, Bertolucci's love for vivid detail and for visual lushness results in scenes of great beauty--a bride galloping on a white horse through the mist and poplar trees, a small boy playing in the river, a group of peasant women resisting the landlords against a red sunset. But just as often, Bertolucci also gives...
Most suspense-filled question of January: How will Susan Sontag resolve her two-part series on "Illness as Metaphor" in January's New York Review of Books? So far, she has proved in exhausting detail that 19th century authors considered tuberculosis a romantic disease. Apparently, part two will show that modern authors do not consider cancer romantic. It all rather leads one to worry about Sontag's worldview: it is a bit morbid, after all, to describe the difference between the centuries in terms of fatal diseases...