Word: detailism
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This attention to detail and strong work ethic has reaped huge dividends this season. If Rose continues his impressive pace, he is projected to break the single-season records for passing yards, total offense, completions, attempts, and total plays. He is also the only Crimson quarterback to have three 300-yard passing performances...
...fittings were always adorned with lacquer. Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant. One was the near alchemical contrast of dull lead inlay and bright gold detail on black lacquer in works like the beautiful writing box named Ashibune, or "Reed Boat...
Karr's coming-of-age chronicle follows a well-beaten path, from worries about fitting in at high school to the belief that most of the classmates there are losers and jerks. Drugs crop up as an antidote to boredom, and Karr re-creates in detail a number of trippy larks that she shared with fellow users. "Guess you kind of had to be there," a friend says after hearing Karr's account of one such adventure. Cherry does not quite get you there...
Ruvkun and other scientists choose to work with the laboratory roundworm, a tiny bacteria-eating soil-dweller, because the sequence of its entire genome is known and its 302-neuron nervous system has been described in detail...
...whether Mayr Girard is insane or not, Insanity leaves no doubt about the inhumanity of ancient mental institutions. Robertson illustrates in shocking detail the primitive treatment of the mentally infirm in days gone by. The cackling of the Furies as splinters were placed under the thumbnails of patients or as patients were thrust into freezing cold baths is enough to chill the blood. The play also discusses the plight of women, which is no coincidence as director Miriam R. Asnes '02 is a women's studies concentrator. Mary Girard, like many women of her time, was legally under the power...