Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gleam on a pear," but Gray can't just leave it at that: "all seems spun in webs of fragile silver," and on and on. Lovers and Tyrants is relentlessly overwritten; Gray leaves no noun unmodified in her search to recapture the past. She never settles for one evocative detail when a page-long list of sensations will do. Her diction is inexact ("voluminous" eyeglasses?) as is the overall effect of her prose...
...name has become famous, the result of some responsible reporting and a lot of sensationalism. But in Colen's book, Karen Ann Quinlan: Dying in the Age of Eternal Life, he doesn't waste time delving into Karen Quinlan's past or describing her present physical condition in gory detail. Instead, he concentrates on the difficult questions that advancing medical technology has forced us to answer...
...prospect, Watkins wants the audience to share Munch's own furious insights and tilted perceptions. So the movie becomes as gloom-ridden, as frightened and obsessive as the youthful artist himself. Watkins fragments the film, fords the stream of consciousness, forsaking the obvious for the magnification of a detail. The narration (read on the sound track by the director himself) informs us that Munch eventually developed agoraphobia. In a more conventional film, we would have been treated to scenes of the artist reeling down streets, cowering in his room. Not here. Once stated, the agoraphobia is established...
...historian-who traced Haley's lineage back centuries before Kunta Kinte was snatched by slavers in 1767. The emotional impact of hearing his forebears named cannot be overestimated. Roots' opening section, a fictionalization of Kunta's birth, Moslem upbringing and manhood rites, have a vividness of detail that only the impassioned imagination can provide. Consider this for example...
Over 80 potential lawyers crowded into President Horner's living room yesterday to hear a panel of seven women lawyers and law students detail the growing opportunities for women lawyers at a forum sponsored by the Office of Women's Education...