Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person," notes Psychiatrist Coles. After school and on weekends, Le Giau's four children help out at the family's pastry shop. Hannah, 18, minds the cash register and serves customers. Vinh, 17, who has kept his name because it is easy to pronounce as "Vin," works the cleanup detail. Christina, 15, washes dishes, and Jennifer, 12, aids her mother Therese with the baking and cake decorating. "American children don't understand," says Hannah. "They don't know why I can't go to the beach." As a consequence, many immigrants' children look upon home-grown Americans only as casual...
...Israeli airline, undoubtedly has the tightest security of all. Every piece of luggage, whether checked or carried on, is inspected, and security officials interview each passenger, often in considerable detail. As many as ten plainclothes guards ride each plane. Not surprisingly, El Al has not had a hijacking since 1968. The airline credited an increase in bookings last week to its security efforts...
Carefully, cautiously, determined not to miss the smallest detail this time around, the Brazilian investigators retraced their steps. Under the watchful gaze of foreign observers, gravediggers in the small hillside town of Embu reopened the local cemetery's tomb 321, from which they had exhumed some mysterious remains two weeks earlier, and turned up four more teeth and several bone fragments. On the outskirts of nearby Sao Paulo, police descended once again on the dilapidated bungalow where the mystery man was said to have lived, and uncovered two bullets and a box of medical supplies. Then, returning to the home...
...though I threw them against the wall and they came together with a purpose not that consciously controlled." The air of improvisation is deceptive. Murray has an exacting sense of the relations between internal drawing and silhouette. Sometimes, for this reason, a panel may look like an enlarged detail from a Juan Gris, and the near erotic friction of turning and rubbing shapes, rhythmically drawn, recalls early De Koonings like Pink Angels. Her work is continually enriched by allusions to the human body...
...attorneys in the Von Bulow case seemed to have exchanged roles. Defense Counsel Thomas Puccio once again seemed to be the aggressive prosecutor of his Abscam days, assertively addressing the facts of the case, while Prosecutor Marc DeSisto offered a histrionic and impassioned plea, long on emotion, short on detail...