Word: detailism
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...editor of FM, I would like to make a general stylistic suggestion for the mag: more first-person pieces. Speaking from a reader's perspective, I'd like to point out that I'm not really interested in the stories; I'm interested in the writers and every embarrassing detail of their Harvard existence. See this letter I? Learn...
...uniformed force is responsible for more than just keeping drunken students from passing out in the MAC quad. From money transports across campus and late-night patrol around Au Bon Pain to plain-clothes detail and a host of other duties, they are charged with keeping Cambridge from ending up like New Haven...
...went through a surrealist phase, like Joan Miro. But Dali's effort to make dreams concrete, to lead the viewer into a state of radical doubt about the supposedly fixed nature of reality, is the entire key to his art. And without the most obsessive and paralyzing exactness of detail, it couldn't have worked. Either you believe that the soft watches are real and that the skull on the beach is--to cite one of his titles--sodomizing a grand piano...
HUPD places detail officers at ABP on weekend nights to deal with a variety of issues, and occasional plainclothes officer sweeps help to stem the larcenies, McNamara says...
...icon whose life never seems to be enough to meet his own expectations. Mary V. Dearborn attempts to find more adequate terms to capture the life of this monumental man in Mailer, her new sweeping biography that examines both Mailer and his times. Dearborn fills the volume with extensive detail in an attempt to capture the underpinnings of the large-than-life persona found in his writings...