Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene. Storey's style is unobtrusive; but the sense of reality which eludes Colin is all about him, in Storey's precise depiction of the fictional world he inhabits. The effects in Saville are rarely obvious; our passport into Colin's dilemma is understatement and the slow accumulation of detail. Storey uses strings of adjectives almost lovingly. Writing of Colin's mother, he says: "It was as if her life had flooded out, secretly, without their knowledge, and she some helpless agent, watching this dissolution with a hidden rage, half-apologetic, half-disowning." It is this dissolution, the steady draining...
...sorry for him." An overwhelming 74% said they felt, despite his denials, that Nixon knew he had obstructed justice. Nearly 60% believed he had lied on the program in claiming he did not know about cash payments to the Watergate burglars until John Dean laid out the problem in detail on March 21, 1973. A decisive 71% said Nixon should not return to public life...
...topic was sex. The two MIT women told all--in lurid detail. They named all--over 30 of their bed mates...
...separate tapings. All the above exchanges occurred on April 13; the rest of the Watergate program was recorded two days later. According to one of his associates, Nixon did not review his Watergate briefing papers between the two sessions ?he was concerned about broader questions. "Much of the detail had been covered on Wednesday," says the aide. Nixon presumed the Friday session would be the toughest of all, since this would be Frost's final chance...
...Days of Hitler and The Rise of Christian Europe, who has ventured far from his customary turf. In 1973, Trevor-Roper came upon two volumes of unpublished memoirs by Sir Edmund. The work appeared so outrageous, so incongruent with the accepted character of the author-it chronicled, in obscene detail, his amours with Chinese eunuchs and such European celebrities as Poet Paul Verlaine -that Trevor-Roper felt compelled to investigate the Backhouse background...