Word: detailism
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...back up this strong writing, Ex Machina’s characters are drawn with incredible detail. They bite their lips and let sadness and laughter crinkle the corners of their eyes. The realism comes out of the artists’ remarkable process: they based each character on a real person, and had their subjects pose for every frame of the book. Then, the pictures were edited into the planned layout for the comic, and Harris made his sketches directly from these references...
...apology is not sufficient, as Summers has apologized enough in the past, with varying results. Neither are more task forces enough. Although we applaud Summers for forming two committees to explore problems of women in science, the current problem is centered on a single person. Instead, Summers must detail exactly what steps he will take to change his curt leadership style and resented policies...
...history department may be on a “retreat into irrelevance,” but at least it knows how to fact-check. Folger Fund Professor of History Andrew Gordon, chair of the History Department, notes that Douthat forgot one important detail when complaining that there were no history classes on the American Revolution during his undergraduate years: there...
...month, the directors, growing bolder, presented Fiorina with her effective demotion. The approach of a damning cover story in FORTUNE reportedly hastened her departure. The piece, headlined "Why Carly's Big Bet Is Failing," included on-the-record quotes by HP insiders criticizing Fiorina and laid out in wincing detail the merger's failure to produce the financial results she had long promised...
...dots mutate into a bird emerging from his head and ranks of soldiers at his chin. Images of struggle and flight, they match Dali's effort to come to terms with a ghostly brother whose name he was given. Then there's The Sistine Madonna, in which a detail of Raphael's Sistine Madonna is made to appear within a massive close-up of a human ear--the ear of Pope John XXIII, no less, much enlarged from a magazine photo. It may not be more than a tour de force of craftsmanship, like scrimshaw. But what...