Word: detailism
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...intense regard for detail and the relentless probing of recollection in the novel has led it to sustain comparisons to Proust. Unlike Swann, the ultimate pretender, Maumort strives to be true to himself, to make his decisions lucidly and to eschew disordered thought. He laments the rare instances where his recollection reveals that his motivations were not as definite as he sensed they were. He lingers over the decisions he makes in his life, wavering, but exquisitely aware of his equivocations. Whenever possible, he takes both roads at once, for example in his choice of careers. Driven by his distant...
...Days after seeing the exhibit, these people in his pictures float unbidden to the surface of my mind. Hilliard has carefully created the situations in the photo, down to the pictures on the front of the cards and the empty water bottle lying in the grass. Every detail is put there to tell the story of the subject, but the final story is left to the viewer. He must interpret these details. Perhaps it is because Hilliard only works with people he knows very well, or perhaps it is because everything is so carefully staged, or maybe it is because...
...response to the critiques of beauty, Scarry says she intends to publish another book to defend beauty in more detail...
...declaration, McCain has always been more conversant on the arcana of foreign and military policy than the dry detail of domestic affairs. But here too there are ironies and contradictions. While accusing the Clinton Administration of allowing the military to fall into a state of perilous disrepair, McCain says he would hold defense spending to its current level or even reduce it. The list of advisers he would consult to help him formulate foreign policy--Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft--sounds almost like a board of directors for the foreign-policy establishment. He wants to maintain...
...Bertelsmann, which owns a 50% stake in AOL's European Internet operations. That would give the company access to Bertelsmann's and AOL's content. And though Mannesman CEO Chris Gent said last week that the current deal is so complicated that it is too early to talk in detail about other possible linkups, no one doubted that they are coming. Europe, it seems, is finally ready to do business at Net speed...