Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director: Yeah, we're decided all right. I'll take care of everything. Tell the Big Man not to worry, sans detail s'il vous plait. (Turning to the Bag Lady) Excuse me miss, where do you get your political opinions...
Rare is the day that Giuliani's name does not appear in the papers. He is media savvy, not overtly calculating. He loves to talk (he does so with unselfconscious self-absorption), to expatiate in professorial detail (with the slightest hint of a lisp). He is also a modern haiku master who can distill a complicated answer into a crisp, 15-second sound bite. When necessary, he can be circumspect. After Giuliani testified at a recent hearing in New York on medical malpractice, one reporter tried to engage him in debate about the Mafia. He smiled mischievously. "Remember the rules...
Hunter Thompson delivered his own surprises. Sent out to cover Humphrey, a wayward whale in the Sacramento River, Thompson instead reported in preposterous detail on an elderly Chinese woman who claimed to be Richard Nixon's former mistress. Thompson devoted a subsequent column to a blistering attack on his "brainless" editor's failure to pay room-service tabs. All good fun, sort of, but other reporters grew angry that Thompson was mugging the Examiner while collecting $1,500 per column...
...handful of Americans knowingly engaged in an extremely hazardous activity. The networks replayed the craft's sudden explosion over and over again. Viewers witnessed countless clips of horrified family members and friends of the astronauts as they saw their loved ones disappear in a cloud of fire. No detail was too mundane or too personal or too painful...
...Israel return intelligence documents it had obtained through him? Who recruited Pollard? How much, if anything, did the top men in the Israeli government know about his activities? Peres said only that his investigation was "still incomplete," and declared that Israel would uncover "all the facts to the last detail no matter where the trail may lead...