Word: detailism
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...expect Bergy to join the party. Although most athletes are focused, Bergy, 32, is the head abbot in the order of aerialists, absolutely devoted to what he does, in minute detail. "I thought a lot about every aspect of this sport--the physics, the techniques, the jumps we were using," he says. That's not a bad idea when you are skiing off a 70[degree] incline at 45 m.p.h. and doing three flips with four twists before landing...
...John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize winner, singer of songs with President Clinton, darling of the world's press since he staked out a nonviolent Irish nationalism at the start of the Troubles. Durkan, the youngest of seven children raised on a police widow's pension, was Hume's detail man for two decades, turning the great leader's big but fuzzy visions into political reality. His skill at listening and bridging divides won him respect, and when Hume finally stepped down, Durkan ran unopposed (he joked that he was the "heir abhorrent"). Perversely, his very qualities of earnest decency...
Over the next four days, we will detail the history of grade inflation at Harvard, explain further the purpose of grades, discuss proposals that won’t work, and finally offer our solution...
From this beginning, daguerreotypy was also employed in cataloguing, in exquisitely grotesque detail, any number of deforming physical ailments confounding Victorian doctors. Contorted limbs, lesions and cancerous bumps provide morbid fascination as representative instances of medical and record through daguerreotypes...
...them and the lithographs copied from these, but they are overwhelmed by the star of this show. Edwin Forrest, an actor from the 1850s, was renowned for his portrayals of theater’s great heroic figures, and his huge twelve-inch-by-ten-inch daguerreotype reflects in faithful detail that summation of his character. Huge and hulking, his portrait seems to extend beyond the planar surface to surreally three-dimensional proportions and his face, slightly jowled and obstinate, demands nothing short of rapt attention. He must have been a commanding bull of a thespian...