Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance contended that he had not attempted to conceal anything. If the Senators did not pursue some of the matters in greater detail, he implied, that was hardly his fault. Indeed, it seemed naive to believe that an appointee should volunteer to a confirmation committee every piece of ammunition it could possibly use to deny him the office. Lance sharply denied asking any federal officials either to close the Justice Department investigation into his campaign overdrafts or to lift the Comptroller's sanctions against the Calhoun bank. The involved officials have supported Lance's denial. Although the criminal...
Sound political sense and meticulous attention to detail are characteristic of Clifford and among the reasons that he has been the trusted confidant of four Presidents. His imposing demeanor (a Washington lawyer once said that listening to Clifford was like listening to God) contrasts with his relatively modest background. Son of a railroad auditor, he practiced law back home in St. Louis for 15 years before moving to Washington and becoming one of President Harry Truman's most intimate advisers-on law, politics and foreign policy. Clifford was a principal architect of the Point Four program, which provided economic...
Officials of the museum believe that the camera will open a new dimension in art exhibits, enabling visitors to see far more detail than ever before. Says Larry Salmon, curator of textiles: "We are now able to take the public into that world previously known to art scholars and museum specialists. We can give the public a sense of a work's grandeur as originally perceived by its creators...
...subjects of Crosby's records, they are exotic and often as empty as the writer himself. He describes the great literary figures of his day and the watering-holes of the very rich with minute detail but little empathy. The characters he describes live only insofar as they affect Harry's life, consequently, his perspective is slanted...
...Eskimos carve sea lions, bears, fish and birds. The forms are sinuous, graceful and smoothly polished. Every detail is included from curving, scimitar tusks to flippers braced against a rock. One sculpted walrus seems almost about to snort and lumber into the water with the gigantic plosh of several tons of blubber. After stalking these creatures for centuries the hunter-artists sculpt them with a combination of humor...