Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apart from his philosophical disinclination to build behemoths, it is hard to imagine Holl producing anything so large that he could not personally fret over every detail. The walls he designed for one apartment, for instance, tilt for arcane aesthetic reasons at precisely 4 degrees. Given the chance, Holl designs not just a building but also its custom chairs, custom lighting fixtures, custom rugs, custom windows and custom door handles. His signature gesture, geometric figures imprinted onto everything from windows to tableware in a kind of new-age homage to Johannes Kepler, can seem the impulse of a meticulous craftsman...
...legislative branch is not my strong suit," she says, explaining that she prefers to be in a policy-making position because she is not a "detail person...
Unfortunately, the incredible detail of the biography overwhelms the reader. Under the guise of a framework, it consistently intrudes on the story and prevents the reader from becoming truly engaged in what was probably a fascinating life...
...from France to Saudi Arabia to Singapore. But since he was unprepared to get into matters of substance, many of the meetings lasted only 15 to 25 minutes, including opening pleasantries and time for translation. In a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, Bush refrained from discussing in detail such key topics as trade and sharing the defense burden. In China, where Bush stopped Saturday and Sunday, his visit mostly renewed friendships dating back to his residence there as U.S. envoy in the mid-1970s. The entire basis of the relationship between the U.S. and China, which was founded...
Allen's method is different. In Oedipus Wrecks, his efficiency is that of the perfectly practiced anecdotalist, not wasting a moment on irrelevant detail, yet knowing when to linger over the important ones. In this brisk vignette, Allen himself plays Sheldon, victim of a kind of transcendental Jewish-mother joke. It would spoil the fun to say how he transforms a stock figure, a yammering, smothering mom (Mae Questel, who is splendid), from a private torment into a public menace, but it is literally magical to behold...