Word: detailing
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...Cudi’s voice is beautiful and his words meaningful; he can spit just as well as he sings. For a new artist attempting an ambitious mixture of styles, Kid Cudi’s album is an impressive success.Immediately noticeable is Cudi’s close attention to detail, not only sonically but also in the album’s presentation. Calling his liner notes a “scene listing” rather than a track list, he groups songs into five acts: “The End of Day,” “Rise...
...warmth amongst strangers. His “cartoon-inspired acrylic paintings” feature figures that appear in bright colors with accoutrements such as antennas and bug eyes rendered adorable by the wide grins on their faces.“My goal is to have the minimum amount of detail with the maximum amount of personality,” Bataclan says. He refers to his characters as “creatures” since they are not exactly human and not exactly animal, but seem more like a friendly visitor from outer space.Originally, Bataclan moved from San Francisco...
...military does not move in mysterious ways. It plods, it plans, it plots out every logistical detail before launching an initiative. Things take time. For example: not all of the 21,000 additional forces that President Obama authorized for Afghanistan last winter have even arrived in the country yet. For another example: the battle plan those troops were asked to execute was devised primarily by General David McKiernan, who was replaced about the time the troops started arriving. McKiernan's plan reflected his experience in conventional warfare: he chose to deploy the troops where the bad guys were - largely...
...education, health care, employment, immigration and more. There's an old adage that you want to see neither a law nor a sausage being made, but just as there are brilliant sausage makers, so there are brilliant lawmakers, and Kennedy was one of them - immersing himself in the complex detail of policy, looking for deals, finding partners, getting things done. (See TIME's photos: Mourning Ted Kennedy...
...most Americans are all too used to the dispiriting reports of the security situation in Afghanistan. But the graphic images of U.S. embassy guards engaged in all manner of obscene, drunken behavior that emerged last week were still shocking. The revelations were presented in detail by the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight (POGO), which sent a letter on Sept. 1 to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exposing an alleged atmosphere of fear and coercion among guards at the embassy in Kabul, which involved bacchanalian parties, hazing, prostitution and drunkenness. "The lewd and deviant behavior of approximately 30 supervisors and guards...