Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French UFO expert--played by Francis Truffaut (who is actually a French UFO expert)--as he scrambles from one side of the globe to the other gathering evidence that has been left in the wake of the same aliens who caused the ruckus in Muncie. Our expert finds one detail quite interesting. The inhabitants of a small town in India--believing a visit by the stellar spooks to be a sign from the great one--created a four-note jingle to sing in honor of the other-wordly visitors. The expert, which his amazing conjectural powers, has a hunch that...
...whose syndicated Daily News column is the city's chief journalistic export - and a favorite Madigan target. Madigan has pilloried the Daily News and its rivals for burying an account of the columnist's arrest last winter in a barroom brawl, an incident Madigan recounted in loving detail. The radio scold frequently delights in picking Royko's nits. The columnist last month reported that Mayor Bilandic, in firing Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely transferred to another job. Sniffs Royko: "Madigan...
...problem in George Hamlin's current production is that the comic scenes, marked by both bravura acting and a careful attention to detail, come to represent "all the world," while the court scenes, marked by all too pregnant pregnant pauses and constant upstaging, represent nothing so much as the players' own simple-minded political maneuvers. Through this serious chink in the production's armor, one can glimpse the basic weakness of the play; in this dramatic as in the political world position triumphs over character...
Describing the river trip, McPhee is superb. His eye for detail is acute, yet never excessive. He treats the use of detail, not as an end in itself, but as a means of making the country real, of placing the reader in its midst. In his opening lines, McPhee writes...
...Breaking into laughter, I said, 'Surely you understand that the shots of me looking cool were "reverses," filmed after Ulbricht had left the room!' No, Paley had not understood, that ... I proceeded to explain in detail the conventional post-interview procedure for shifting the camera and focusing it on the correspondent to repeat the principal questions, plus a gamut of absorbed and skeptical poses, all of this to be spliced into the interview to add variety and facilitate editing. Paley was fascinated. 'But isn't it basically dishonest?' he asked finally...