Word: detailism
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...partly owned by retired basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Scott's album lives up to the promise of its resume. Her mostly midtempo songs are smoothly entertaining, and her soothing vocals fluently blend soulful croons, jazzy scats and forays into spoken word. Scott's relaxed singing style and the emotional detail in her lyrics make it seem she's not so much performing her songs as she is sharing personal stories with her listeners. This album has the warm, intimate glow of the best afterparty...
...sure it would do much for American-Canadian friendship to go into more detail. Students wishing to pursue the subject, however, might explore fatal comparisons in the area of humor...
...away as California and Florida had signed Furlow up as their adoption facilitator--a sort of baby headhunter increasingly popular among adoptive parents because they work outside the constraints of traditional adoption lawyers or agencies. In almost every case, according to court documents, Furlow had fictionalized--in mesmerizing detail--all the characters...
...addictively mean Fametracker www.fametracker.com)--"The Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth"--is dedicated to exposing the overexposed and meting out punishment for hubris. Its signature feature, the "Fame Audit," dissects superstars' careers and publicity binges with surgical detail. On Ben Affleck: "[He] has had a Counting Crows kind of career--too much, too fast, too soon. This isn't his fault, but it is his problem." Each audit tots the star's assets and liabilities (Affleck's: "Easygoing, cocksure charm"/"Consistently refers to his acting as 'the work'") and judges the celeb's "actual" and "deserved" level of fame...
DIED. GUSTAW HERLING, 81, Polish essayist and dissident whose 1953 book, A World Apart, captured in harrowing if dispassionate detail the horrors of his experience in the Soviet gulag; in Naples, Italy...