Word: detailism
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...most chilling detail of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut is that in his last seconds the suicide bomber was smiling. Bassamat al-farah, it is called. The smile of joy. Suicide bombers are taught that they are guaranteed immediate admission to paradise, where 72 black-eyed virgins await their pleasure...
...former President and First Lady had been at the White House the night before the terrorists struck. They were flying to St. Paul, Minn., when the first news was flashed to their Secret Service detail. Their plane was diverted to Milwaukee, Wis., and they were rushed off to a motel beyond the city limits. They could do very little but follow events on television as the rest of the nation was doing. The grief, the horror of the atrocity, pervaded their small outpost. The President, flying out of Florida, put in a call to his father. "Where...
...Government sources would not describe in detail the nature of the weapons found on the Delta flights last week, but one official disclosed that another weapon was discovered on at least on other aircraft, owned by a fourth airline. The government official refused to name that carrier...
...Americans, Jason E. Whitlow 99, watched the terrible events unfold on television from afar, helpless to stop the fires or hold up the towers. And as reporters on every station endlessly reported the facts of what had happened and cycled through the chronology of the morning events in excruciating detail, the one question that pounded in peoples brains remained unanswered. Who survived? With cell phone connections down and landlines a scarce commodity, the flow of personal information was slow to reach friends and family members. Unwilling to sit and wait for the news to come in at its own pace...
...Studio of Her Own” is remarkable. Of special note is Anna Vaughn Hyatt’s statue, Young Diana, depicting the goddess balanced delicately upon the backs of three large fish, her bow and arrow pointed towards Zeus. Hyatt’s attention to detail is remarkable, and the fish appear so real that they might jump back into the sea. Also moving is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Bust of a Woman, a partial cast of her Emancipation that now resides in Harriet Tubman Square. A photograph of the entire statue—showing young...