Word: detailism
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...long neglected work given a piercing revival in Baltimore - also seems, on its face, unpromising as drama, since it is essentially a collage of trial testimony. Yet, as artfully pieced together by Weiss, the author of "Marat/Sade," the play locates fresh power in the sheer deadpan accumulation of detail of the awful crimes; in the stubbornly repetitive, I-knew-nothing defenses; and in the resonant stage device (in the Baltimore production, at least) of having the same actors play multiple roles -victims and villains interchangeable. "We were nothing but numbers, just like the prisoners," says a doctor accused of injecting...
...Hopefully, both teams will play good defense," Stone said. "There is a tremendous amount of talent on the ice. The team that pays the most attention to detail is going...
Others say the strong interest in Bush's managerial style may be due to its contrast with former President Bill Clinton's detail-oriented approach...
Although Guzzetti has not spoken to Hartley in detail regarding his approach to the course, he said he anticipates Hartley will give out mini-scripts to his class with the assignment of having people realize them...
...investment of human effort and technology in experiments to clone humans represents the worst type of scientific endeavor [SOCIETY, Feb. 19]. Why is it that Nature, in all its splendid manifestations, tends everywhere to spectacular diversity and mind-boggling detail, yet whenever we seek to copy it, we achieve only bleak standardization and stifling unity? Our scientific obsession with the cloning of spiritless matter will lead us to further spiritual impoverishment and predictable genetic disaster. MARTHE MULLER Cape Town...