Word: detailism
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...going to have an election that will focus more on personality than policy," Hartle says. "I think that [concrete plans] will develop in more detail over the next couple of months...
...Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan museum, of an "epiphanic detail," a "slash of pink on the inner thigh/of a white hound" in a painting by Paolo Veronese...
...This detail initially strikes Walcott as a mystical confirmation of the transcendent powers of art, its superiority to the transiency of life. How frustrating, then, that as he grows older, the poet cannot again find the white wolfhound where he was sure he saw it in Veronese (or maybe Giambattista Tiepolo). How puzzling that his imagination keeps calling up a picture of a black mongrel scavenging along the wharf of a Caribbean harbor town...
...under unprecedented pressure to do something. This week Congress will hold a hearing on runway incursions that is expected to get heated. Jim Hall, head of the National Transportation Safety Board and a close ally of Vice President Al Gore, will testify in detail about four of the most serious runway incursions of last year, and he will call on lawmakers to take swift action. "Runway incursions are the No. 1 problem in aviation today," says Hall. "The FAA has run off the runway and is in a ditch on this one, and they better get out quick." Jane Garvey...
...More specifically, I am asking to attend the April Harvard Coop Board of Directors meeting to discuss the issue in more detail and discuss alternatives that can benefit both the Harvard Coop and the Bow & Arrow Pub," he writes...