Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best. It is made up of four separate documentaries, each two hours or more in length, focusing on the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in Talladega. The films -- separately titled Blind, Deaf, Multi-Handicapped and Adjustment and Work -- teem with affecting, carefully assembled detail. A little blind girl, new cane in hand and helped by a teacher, gropes through the hallways in search of a children's drinking fountain. "I deserved a drink of water for that, didn't I?" she chirps after finally taking a sip. Disabled adults are trained in sewing and other rudimentary work skills. Children...
...amnesty under the program that ended last month now face a new hurdle: to remain in the U.S., they must pass tests in history and basic English. Since many are illiterate in their own language, this is no small obstacle. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has been slow to detail the requirements or offer textbooks, but Los Angeles, with 745,000 applicants, has jumped into the breach. The city has enrolled 30,000 adults, a number expected to reach 200,000 by July...
...recently, the earth's core, hidden under thousands of miles of rock, was a mystery. Now all that is changing. In the past two years, thanks to a technological revolution in methods of observation, scientists have begun to paint a theoretical portrait of the planet's interior in startling detail. Says Harvard University Geophysicist Adam Dziewonski: "For the first time we can actually see the inside of the machine...
...come are any more outlandish than the trail of circumstances and coincidences that have led up to them. Like the glass structure it celebrates, Oscar and Lucinda seems the stuff of shimmering, transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail. The book does not, of course, weigh twelve tons, but it will seem substantial enough to readers unable to put it down...
...planned it down to the last detail, and in the end, as one observer put it, "it was like picking cherries...