Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Consider that now: a President pounding over the hills on horseback, his hounds in full cry after a scraggly fox. Environmentalists would have jumped out at him from behind every hedge, waving placards. A "save the foxes" society would have been organized. Columnist Ellen Goodman would have rushed to detail the plight of the ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-treated foxes of Fairfax County. Newsmagazines might have noted that photographs of Washington mounting his horse revealed he had wide hips. The temptation would have been too much: "President Washington, displaying a broad beam and a narrow mind, last week chased...
...spite of having the power to do so, one shares a portion of the blame. It may go further. If one sets into motion a train of events that lead to a calamity, however circuitously, he may be culpable as well, the absence of intention being merely a detail...
...Office of Management and Budget, and Jennifer Blei, 28, IBM sales representative; both for the first time; in Washington, D.C. Stockman will not handle the family budget, he says, because "I tend to round off numbers to the nearest billion dollars, and Jennifer says I lack sufficient attention to detail...
Kraus received his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1968, and has since built a reputation on campus as a precise, efficient Harvard bureaucrat. Although the demands of his new job are entirely different. Kraus has apparently brought his appetite for detail to his political life. When he announced his candidacy for the State Senate seat vacated by his predecessor in an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, he faced a crowded seven man Democratic primary. But by analyzing voting patterns to past elections, his staff predicted election results to within a surprising 100 votes out of 35,000 cast...
...over any noun it touches, and is one of the favorite words of cultural coercion in the Midcult lexicon (like masterpiece and treasure), one should use it with reserve. The papacy may be infallible in dogma, but not in taste. And although the exhibition claims to show us in detail just what the changing relations of the Popes to art were, it does not deliver the goods. It contains only routine information and no fresh ideas about the liturgical, propagandist, doctrinal and decorative purposes of Vatican collecting, or the effect of that collecting on taste...