Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gomes says Epps still recalls the incident in no small detail...
...glided in under the political radar. Right up to about 10 o'clock on election night the local press treated him like a cartoon character. It wasn't reported until later, for example, that Ventura is his stage name, that his legal name is James Janos--a small detail, but Minnesotans had never elected a pseudonym before. He mused about the death penalty and legal prostitution, which are not winning issues here except among drunks, but nobody held it against him. He likened the war on drugs to Prohibition and called it a failure. People let that...
...revered even by the geniuses who roam Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus for his awesome "bandwidth" (geekspeak for intelligence). Gates' memory is so capacious that at age 11, he astounded friends and family by memorizing all 107 verses of the Sermon on the Mount. He's so driven and detail oriented that he favors baths over showers so he can study while he soaks. Besides, it's hard to imagine the lackadaisical Gates of the video taking Microsoft from three employees and $16,005 in revenues in 1975 to a market cap of $263 billion today...
Many clubs have Punch Books in which club members comment on the performance of punches at such events. In these books I've seen comments such as, "This guy pulls mad trim, must admit," translating to, "This punch will attract a lot of women, accept him." Other comments detail how "cool" a punch is, who his girlfriend is and other superficial descriptions related to his prowess in attracting women...
...heads of people unacquainted with the machines. Additionally, while information about his family and home life is plentiful early on in the book, later appearances are sporadic, and sometimes seem out of place in the flow of the story. His earlier years through high school are explained in great detail, and the book seems to hurry to a conclusion, glossing over college and his years after graduation...