Word: detailism
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...wasn’t surprised last month when the man who often holds the door for me outside CVS noticed my new haircut. This acquaintance had become enough of a visible presence in my life—and vice versa—that he picked up on a detail that had eluded even my roommate. But in the midst of such familiarity, even cordiality, it’s sometimes easy to forget that winter is much harsher on some than others. The cold, rainy walk from Winthrop to Boylston is unsavory enough; imagine sleeping that same night on the ground...
...Jenkins' tale adds intriguing detail to the outside world's sketchy understanding of North Korean society. No other American who has spent so long a time or seen so much inside what may be the world's most despotic, secretive and brutal society has escaped to tell the tale. While a steady stream of Korean defectors, as well as escapees from its prison camps, has talked of the horrors of the Hermit Kingdom, Jenkins is the first to provide a detailed view of this little-known land from the perspective of an outsider who became intimately familiar with its perverse...
None of this would matter, necessarily, if this were just some hack novelist who was inaccurately depicting college life with the clumsy log of his pen. But the author is Tom Wolfe, a man whose celebrated eye for cultural detail leads those who know little of his chosen subject to accept his account as truth. In a famous 1988 essay entitled “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,” Wolfe lambastes his literary contemporaries for not trying to accurately document the frenetic vagaries of our nation’s reality, the “irresistibly lurid carnival...
Wolfe the author does manage to shine in the realm of dialogue and linguistic nuance, and the level of detail he picks up, from the extensive research he is famous for, pays off a number of times. Particularly astute is his inclusion of “Sarc1, 2 and 3,” graduated forms of sarcasm that forestall their victim’s realization of mockery. And college movie buffs will enjoy his inclusion of Frank the Tank’s now famous mantra “It tastes so good when it hits your lips...
...slugger David Ortiz say first when he triumphantly entered the clubhouse after one of his homers beat the Yankees? MLB's DVD of Boston's curse-reversing 2004 World Series run--with locker-room footage and sound via microphones set by the bench and diamond--brings new detail to baseball's most dramatic postseason. Sport contests can lose their luster once they wrap. But this lively DVD, narrated by Boston-bred actor Denis Leary, captures the suspense, and chats with manager Terry Francona and former Sox like Pudge Fisk and Bill Buckner exorcise the ghosts all over again. --By David...