Word: detailism
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...back in a corner of the windowsill with its legs curled up. It had wandered in past the mesh and never found its way out." It's a muted metaphor not just for Zaki but for Pakistan as a whole. It's this kind of nuanced detail in The Wish Maker, moreover, that leaves you wishing for much more from Sethi, whose buzzing talent is unmistakable...
...volunteer organization Hadassah, has written a new book, out Aug. 25, about her yearlong extramarital affair with swindler Bernie Madoff, titled Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me. Voyeurs won't be left wanting for dirt; the salacious tell-all chronicles their trysts in graphic, almost vengeful detail. Ironically, the 60-year-old Weinstein, who calls Madoff a "beast" and a "monster," has done more than anyone else to humanize the inscrutable investment scammer, painting him as an insecure man capable of tender courtship and dashing romance. Weinstein, whose family was forced to sell their home after being...
...book recounts in great detail the sexual experiences you had with Madoff. The unflattering physical comments you made about him have drawn quite a bit of attention. Why did you decide to focus on that? In the months following the scandal breaking, I got a lot of questions about what made Bernie tick. [His alleged poor endowment] was an issue for Bernie. I started doing some research, and it can impact the psyche from a very early age. I really did feel that this was a part of Bernie's makeup, a big part of his psyche...
...mean that as an insult. Mad Men (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.) is an exquisitely written and acted show. It re-creates its early-'60s settings with painstaking detail and creates its characters' inner lives with piercing insight. But as quotable and sexy as Mad Men is, what distinguishes it from most TV dramas, even the best, is its empty spaces. The silent pause in the front seat of a car as a man drives with his wife; the look a newlywed gives her husband, wondering what she might have gotten herself into. TV has a high metabolism today, jumping...
...memos from 2002 to 2005 provided the legal underpinning for the harsh techniques, and we already know that many of these were in fact used - waterboarding was used on one detainee 183 times, and on another 83 times. But the IG report should supply more granular detail on the use and frequency of the techniques...