Word: detailism
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...look back over my old columns, the faces, voices and stories all rush back to me with such vivid color and detail as if it were last week, or maybe even two weeks before that. I realize that to not share this wealth of experience with the world would be a crime. I have no choice. The time to pen my memoirs has come...
...ignored the committees that traditionally recommend promotions--and, critics say, perpetuate the old-boy network. Mueller has also shocked the troops by personally interviewing candidates for all upper-management and some key middle-management posts. Mueller loyalists say the ex-Marine handpicks young leaders whose passion for detail matches his own. His moves are backed by his boss, John Ashcroft. "The Attorney General has the utmost confidence in how [Mueller is] tackling the job," says Ashcroft aide Barbara Comstock...
...LANTANA LIT: Sneer at tabloid journalism if you will, but the National Enquirer sold 6.5 million newsstand copies of its issue with Elvis peacefully at rest in his open casket. In September, Iain Calder, the Enquirer?s editor-in-chief for 30 years, will detail such feats of tabloidism in an as-yet untitled memoir for Talk Miramax. This is the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried, even before they?re buried...
...Although it is a minor detail about our campus, it is really a thing that students internalize,” says Natalia A.J. Truszkowska ’02, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...weren't assured that it all really happened, you would certainly be compelled to toss it away as contrived nonsense. The first issue focused on The Meeting, which took place at Disney's "Magic Kingdom" in Orlando, a detail that would have been intolerable if a story so sincere had been fiction. The key first contact moment - the one that a great many fictional romances leave out because it is always unbelievable - happens when Tom asks a woman on an empty bus if he can sit near her and she says yes. Assuming any man deeply in love...