Word: detailing
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...bonus" for TIME'S readers of up to 100 color-filled extra pages of editorial content specifically directed to 1984's very special demands. With these additional capabilities, which will cost nearly $2 million, TIME will be taking an unprecedented step toward giving its readers the dramatic detail and pictorial splendor that are a vital part of the events that define our interests and shape our times. TIME'S new bonus approach to big news will be used for two Winter Olympics issues, three during the Summer Olympics and two for the political conventions, as well...
...shoveling snow from the center of Kosevo Stadium. Mirjan Jarovije-vic, 15, a student at the Yaroslav Cernyi technical school, took the arrival of a visitor as a splendid opportunity to lean on his shovel and sneak a smoke. He said he had been chosen for the work detail because he was so smart that he would not fall behind in school. His volunteer supervisor, Muharen Corba, 27, was smart too. Good-naturedly he yelled at Mirjan and his friends, who were throwing snowballs and pushing each other in wheelbarrows, to get on with the job. More noise, more snowballs...
Peter Gay, Berlin-born professor of history at Yale and author of such highly regarded works as The Enlightenment and Weimar Culture, tells the rather steamy tale of Mabel Todd in considerable detail because she illustrates to perfection the basic thesis of his ambitious new book: that the middle classes of the Victorian century, widely thought to have suppressed sexuality in favor of piety and profit, were just as amorous as their great-grandchildren of today. Even Queen Victoria was not really Victorian, says Gay, for she "drew, and bought, male nudes and gave her adored husband Albert just such...
Stamaty is the creator of "Washingtoon," a cartoon featured in each issue of The Village Voice, and reprinted weekly in The Washington Post. Congdon & Weed has published the serialized strip in a book, giving readers a prolonged look at Stamaty's notable knack for capturing in detail the mood and idiosyncrasies of our nation's capital during Reagan's tenure. As a chronicle of the reign of the New Right, the book is as depressing as it is funny...
...rooted in provinciality, and Miró's was no exception. He was a city boy, a goldsmith's son, but he spent part of his youth on the farm that his parents owned at Montroig. Its white, cracked walls, dusty earth and heatstruck furrows-commemorated in lunar detail in The Farm, 1921-22-were the frame of an immense repertory of images that constituted the motifs of his art: hairs and plants, chickens and cats and snails, the moon and the dog howling at it, galumphing limbs and waggling genitals...