Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attack helped Simpson win over the crowd. He stayed cool. He spoke about his time in jail. He said he had discovered new meaning in the Bible and learned from the Book of Job. The questions from the students were probing but not hostile. Simpson responded in droning detail, revealing nothing new. He said he had declined to testify because his legal team believed it would only prolong the proceedings...
DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, bullfighter whose rivalry with toreador brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway; following a stroke; in Sotogrande, Spain. His affairs with screen idols Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were chronicled in loving detail by gossip columnists...
...admissions process, which is portrayed as a crap shoot. The credentials of the four students are equally impressive; the reader does not know which one Harvard favored until the end of the story. The multi-tiered process of folder reading, rating, and voting on applicants was explained in great detail...
Hardy souls who crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...
With its evenhanded blend of public spectacle and intimate detail, Sarah Bradford's new biography, Elizabeth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 564 pages; $30), is rumored to have nettled the Queen when published in Britain recently, but it is really the book she deserves. It's all here, the public occasions and ceremonies, the baffling indirections of court diplomacy, the knots and ravels of an intense family life. Elizabeth II, 70 this month, has reigned 44 long years, years spent largely in public. Her lifetime assignment is to be the embodiment of the monarchy, and at that she is impeccable--serene, stately...