Word: detailism
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...says he knows his work unavoidably carries a message. The final version of the novel is the result of at least one major choice about presentation and plot line which he says could have changed the tone of the book entirely and sent the wrong message—more detail might ruin the story. But Turow, in contrast to many others in his genre, does treat his writing as art, taking time in the mornings to write before practicing law in the afternoons at the Chicago branch of the international firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal...
...about half of the action figures are based on real soldiers. They wear the same fatigues, they carry the same weapons and even have the same dog tags as real troops. In fact, Hasbro, the maker of G.I. Joe, goes through no small effort to recreate the detail of historic soldiers in its Luftwaffe, NVA, and Soviet Union soldiers. It also includes more recent soldiers, such as those who participated in the first Persian Gulf...
...Kropf is in Nashville. In an e-mail message sent from Tennessee in late January, Kropf did not go into his decision in detail...
...calls for pre-emptive strikes against terrorists or nations that develop weapons of mass destruction, good intelligence will be more vital than ever. One big test is approaching: to boost its case for war, the Bush Administration is planning a major speech that will attempt to show in great detail how Iraq has acquired its banned weapons. But officials say they are concerned about whether the CIA--and its hard-charging director, George Tenet--can produce the goods to win over skeptics at home and abroad...
...drone in the eastern part of the country. They were apparently villagers collecting scrap metal. One was tall and could have been Osama bin Laden. Never mind that the man killed was only 5 ft. 11 and bin Laden is 6 ft. 5; the Predator can't see every detail, and there...