Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editorial was, first and fore-most, factually inaccurate. It implied that the Council had sponsored or even funded the recent "Hello Day," this event, in the words of its organizer, "had nothing to do with the council." I do not appreciate such inattention to detail in an attack on the council's relevance and competence...
...resolution doesn't go into detail about the structure after autonomy has been gained, and I think there's a need for clarification," he said...
Woody and Buzz become uneasy partners, Defiant Ones-style, when they are captured by Sid, the toy torturer next door. Sid must have spoken to a deep, dark streak in the animators, so lovingly do they detail the boy's atrocities. His bedroom, a playpen for Krafft-Ebing, is a place of ominous eccentric angles (his parents stuck him in the attic) and walls papered with posters for bands like Megadork. "The patient is prepped," he declares, revealing a doll with its head in a vise. This Sid is vicious...
Readers who turn to books for escape from the dailiness of life will find little respite in Leverich's biography. He is a great one for minutiae--bills, appointments, schedules--as if by the sheer amassing of mundane detail he could arrest his notoriously flighty subject. The book is a solid job, but at times a weighty one--as dense as a memorial stone...
...however. Some of the smallest features visible in the photo--delicate, stalklike projections reaching out from the clouds--are actually infant star systems the size of our solar system, just now emerging from the gas and dust that shrouded their birth. The ability to see them in such unprecedented detail has told astronomers an enormous amount about how stars are born and why some are circled by planets and others are not. "People had come up with plausible theories about star birth," says Arizona State University astronomer Jeff Hester, leader of the team that took the picture. "Then...