Word: detailism
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...that, “For the sake of honesty...yeah! I try not to if it’s a girl I really care about, but I do tell my closest friends. Girls talk about stuff just as bad as guys, though.” So how much detail do you provide your pals...
Tommy’s has a history of conflict with the licensing commission and nearby residents and was even forced to place a police detail in the shop between 2 and 3 a.m. a few years ago, Gifford said...
Here’s an idea for the Crimson Key as they lead herds of prospective students on the campus tour this fall: Tell them everything about Harvard, down to the grittiest, most ugly detail. Certainly this would make the tour informative, but the Crimson Key would also weed out the most dreamy-eyed of applicants, who later become the students cantankerously wondering why the world’s richest university doesn’t serve them breakfast...
...magic of a Miyazaki film lies not just in storytelling complex enough to ensnare adults. Every frame in Spirited Away is packed with visual detail, from the design on a painted vase to a splatter of bird droppings on a boulder. Unlike Walt Disney, Miyazaki is an animator who actually animates. A perfectionist heavily involved throughout the process, he sketches storyboards and checks every key frame. Such intricate scenes demand a staggering number of cels: 100,000 for Spirited Away in an era when studios like Disney rely on computer graphics. With each film he creates a complete and entirely...
...memory, even while writing so confidently from it. “The room is always sunny in memory, though it must have rained and snowed some days,” she says of the Canadian finishing school where she was sent for a year. Her characteristic eye for detail is in full effect, and her snapshot portraits of people are often brilliantly perceptive. Of the actress Stella Adler, with whom Fox spent only a single evening, she writes, “She was refined and at the same time raffish, and her voice was full of depths and fluting melodies...