Word: detailism
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...owner of a Boston-area sex shop. It was a great opportunity for the woman to promote her products and their use to a large audience of undergraduates who had volunteered to dedicate two hours to listening. Free samples of her merchandise were handed out, their use explained in detail. Given that the shop owner was female, it was presumably easy for those involved to reassure themselves that she was there to share new modes of personal expression. Some embarrassment about the fact that the speaker was a shop owner must have been felt by the organizers, however, because...
...dozen prints in the pictorialist style of his contemporaries, for whom photography didn’t inherently qualify as art. The pictorialists felt the need to touch up their images in the developing tray, even draw on them with a special kind of ink. A print very low on detail, foggy and mysterious, would result, bearing no resemblance at all to the meticulously precise images many viewers expect from Adams.But a few of these pictures, unknown to all but the most resourceful Adams admirers, are startlingly successful. “From Moose Pass, Canadian Rockies...
...Still, when rich Chinese hire a security detail, protection isn't always their primary concern. Cui Fengxian, a Beijing lawyer, founded Beijing Capital Bodyguard Security Consultants, which in 2002 was the first firm of its kind to receive government approval to do business, because he believed China lacked adequate means to protect its richest citizens. Now he estimates that about 30% of his 200 clients hire his guards-all former secret-service members-for "ornamental" reasons. Cui travels with eight bodyguards himself and dresses them in long leather coats. "It's a question of image," he says. "[These...
...that has the potential to be open one moment and cloistered the next. What happens when The Crimson tries to uncover a trend that is not already on the University agenda? Viewing HUPD as the professional police force it is claimed to be, and not merely a private security detail, requires it to be treated as its “real world” counterparts are. We hope the Supreme Judicial Court will agree...
...journalist wife, Letizia. Lay-o-nor rolls off the Spanish tongue and has a right royal ring; a león is a lion, oro is gold. But frankly, a Leonardo would have been better. Maybe not to the thrilled parents, or the hundreds of journalists on goo-goo detail outside the Madrid clinic where the princess was born. But yes, the Spanish constitution would definitely have preferred un hombre. It says so in Article 57 of the document adopted three years after General Francisco Franco died, 30 years ago next Sunday. Were it not thus, Felipe's eldest sister...