Word: detailism
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...Frank lives in a tooth-and-claw, pre-civilized world, but with card-playing, geometrically shaped chickens, stick-figure devils that read books, and man-hogs who live in houses. The drawings are cartoony, with fat, soft lines and a minimum of physical detail. But their movement and actions are depicted with expressiveness and drama. Woodring's style combines warmth and fuzziness with sharp teeth...
...Dickerson:The President was apparently inside the White House working out. And the Secret Service took its regular measures, which of course they don't detail. The Vice President reportedly kept working in his office while all this was going...
...idea that some proctors prefer to handle certain incidents on their own without reporting every detail to the FDO bothers some relatively new proctors...
...tedious. Project 2061, the education-improvement initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, examined 10 of the most widely used high school biology texts last year and could not recommend a single one as satisfactory. "Although the textbooks are filled with pages of vocabulary and unnecessary detail, they provide only fragmentary treatment of some fundamentally important concepts" such as natural selection and cell construction, said Dr. George Nelson, the former astronaut who heads Project...
...Texas-Wyoming ball where a lounge act from Austin named Mr. Fabulous played. We saw many friends from Austin, for the most part people like us whose children were about the same age as the Bush daughters and had grown up with them. Except for the small detail of thousands of strangers milling around, it was almost like being at one of their graduation parties. Indeed we weren't there because of political ties but because this mingling of friends and the presidency was too improbable to ignore. In time the President and his wife appeared on the bandstand...