Word: detailism
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...girl, Nanny, who takes a part-time job looking after Grayer Addison X, the 4-year-old scion of the Xs, a wealthy family with serious boundary issues. As plots go, it's not exactly Tom Clancy, but the novel's niftiness lies in Nanny's keen eye for detail. She's Mary Poppins channeling Dorothy Parker. She notes, for example, that at Halloween children are dressed as grownups while their caregivers are belittled: tiny Snow Whites shadowed by large dwarfs. Not to mention that the nannies' costumes are breathtakingly unsuitable for chasing toddlers...
...warmer weather, the garment will soon become ubiquitous (Julia Roberts, Janet Jackson and Calista Flockhart have already been spotted wearing them). In shape and color, the tops hark back to the hippie era. Loose and unstructured, they come mainly in white and pastels, often with embroidery. In detail and fabric, they tend toward the romantic, with ruffles around the neckline and cuffs, in chiffon and other sheer fabrics. The good news for the elite shopper: you can spend princely sums to dress like a pauper. Labels like Prada and Dolce & Gabbana offer tops that climb in price into...
...carry out a strange career goal: to become king of his own South Seas island. Two years into the voyage, he put this plan into action, first leading a horrific mutiny and then anchoring the battered Globe on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Thomas Heffernan describes in rich detail the development of this savage, strange man, and the extraordinary results of his mutiny." Heffernan's book is due out on April 29. A few days earlier, on April 24, Little, Brown will publish "Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe" by Gregory...
...keeping with this dialogue of natural features and man-made structures is Gardner’s deceptively simple painting showing snow-spattered mountains in meticulous detail. In the lower left corner, he slyly inserts the serpentine curve of a highway encroaching on the majestic landscape. Elizabeth Peyton’s “Queen Elizabeth II with Her Dogs at Balmoral” (2002) is a small light-hearted scene painted in large, broad strokes and dominated by an acid, neon green background...
...Unfortunately, the newspaper man's slavish attention to detail?facts, dates and potted biographies?leaves Gargan little room for introspection and self-analysis. He takes up too much space running down the political histories of the countries along the Mekong, and identifying all the principal players. His diligence makes the reading interesting and informative, but hardly gripping. Every now and again, you wish he'd pause from the narration of facts to tell us more about himself, about how his perspective on Asia has changed with the years?molded by the things he's seen, the stories he's covered...