Word: detailism
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...again for novels. For Clockers he spent months hanging with cops and dealers in housing projects around Jersey City, N.J., which is where he learned things like how to use an eggbeater to work lactose powder into cocaine. Critics were awed by his combination of psychological nuance and journalistic detail. "They made it sound like I was out there with a notepad and a pith helmet," he says. But he started to doubt his own virtues. Sometimes he would take a kid from the projects into Manhattan, where the boy would be dazzled into numb silence by the place. "After...
...technically salespeople, because nothing in the store is for sale. Pretend employees pretend to stock and manage the store as a prototype for how every Abercrombie store must look and run. All those casually thrown on belts and layers in a regular store are planned to the smallest detail in Ohio, then shipped out to the rest of the country to be recreated according to precise specifications. “All stores have the same items in the same places—everything is just a replica so that wherever an [Abercrombie executive] goes, he can walk in and know...
...emphasized the need for more people to understand the issue in greater detail...
...accepted me, I promised myself that I wouldn’t spend the next four years like I had the last four. I decided that it was time, first, to stop working to the point of fatigue and, more importantly, to stop taking myself-—and every detail of life—so seriously. Instead of sweating through papers and exam periods, Crimson duties and interpersonal interactions, I pledged from deep within my soul to let laughter prevail even if the heavens should fall. I’m not talking about complacency; I’m talking about...
Lowry’s books are not all so heavy, however—after all, she is also well known for a distinctly lighter side, fondly remembered for the Anastasia series of nine books that detail the misadventures of 10- to 13-year-old Anastasia Krupnik. Lindsey D. Cameron ’05, who read the Anastasia books, says she wanted to be just like the spunky heroine. “I remember in one book, Anastasia placed a personal ad looking for a perfect husband (even though she was 12) and I thought that was so cool...