Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston, which had revealed the existence of the J.F.K. tapes the same week the disclosure of the Nixon recordings was made, announced that they were then storing 68 Dictabelt recordings of telephone conversations and 125 tapes of meetings in which President Kennedy took part. But they did not detail just how the J.F.K. taping worked, tell who had been recorded or reveal the subjects discussed. Last week the Washington Post published most of the library's logs of these tapes, and any real distinction between the Nixon and Kennedy recording practices seemed insignificant...
...oriented toward the use of tools but not machines." The key phrase is "until recent times"-without it, most European culture up to about 1600 could fairly be called primitive. Above all, the word cannot mean crude or inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings are as exquisitely realized, in detail and in the round, as the Met's ivory Bini mask of a Nigerian ruler; and the technical finesse of pre-Columbian gold ornaments, brought back by the conquistadors from South America, astonished Albrecht Dürer in the 16th century as much as it does us today...
...LURKING SENSUALITY that is bound to make itself known in this story of a secluded girls' school down the road from a cadets' training camp is shown subtly first, in a palate of fine detail. There are vague whispers that an old, established widow in town never quite bothered to marry the man whose money she is now living off. And there is a great image of repressed sexual yearning in the school mistress who, ever mindful of war shortages, has the cook bake only one chocolate cake a week, which she single-handedly eats in seclusion...
This attention to detail allows for subtle echoings and image patterns. There is, for example, a recurrent image of infertility. Marriages that were never really marriages. A long line of titled nobility ending in an imbecile son. Secret abortions. And of course the primary image, the decorated, but hollowed-out, Easter...
Four Friends is a retrospective lock right. It's an ass-backwards cavalcade of newsreel-type images lacking sound and fury, interspersed with gratuitous about ethnic groups, a kitchen sink toward detail, and a felling of amity that never gels...