Word: detailism
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...Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom and his wife, Abigail, detail in their new book, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, KIPP schools are among the few bright spots in urban public education today. Roughly 80 percent of them are charter schools, while the rest are very similar “contract” schools...
...designer from interrupting a fitting to ask an assistant to dash over to a nearby restaurant with a Polaroid camera. Ford was meeting some journalists there, and he wanted to make sure the restaurant had the right look. When it comes to image, Ford likes to control every detail, right down...
Think these Margo chandeliers are too much? Take a look at this designer's Long & Lean lineup for simpler styles. Each pair of earrings is elegantly presented and described in vivid detail. Warning: your favorites could take up to six weeks to ship...
Your base is an inner-city rooftop, where you monitor citizens through binoculars, identifying targets for persuasion--or eradication. The degree of detail--in buildings and personnel--is stunning. Are you playing a game or watching a psychological spy thriller? At times, it's hard to tell...
...English in Bangkok and New Delhi. Four of the five stories in Lucky Girls are drawn from her experiences living among Americans in Asia. In the title story, about a young American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view of something everyone in the world has seen a thousand times." In The Orphan, Alice muses that Bangkok is "like a dream of Los Angeles," which at the same time "reminds...