Word: detailism
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...dropped out of school and moved to New York City to look for work; within weeks, she was posing for French Glamour. "It's not that I wanted to model," she says, sounding for all the world like the survivor of an accident too gory to describe in detail. "It just happened. At first I thought it was...like a joke. I didn't tell them I was a musician. I didn't want to confuse them. But I am a person who is serious, and from the Day One, I wasn't completely happy, because I wanted to play...
Most of those who argue for the importance of fashion as art restrict their attention to the highest echelon of couture, judging value by such indications as the ingenuity of construction, level of detail, perfection of drape and splendor of textile. Such features may be exhibited as easily on a museum mannequin as on a living person; the animating spirit is the genius of the designer. But for Hollander, while she admires seminal figures like Chanel and St. Laurent, the couturier is a minor figure...
...Language comes so easily to us, we tend to forget how complex it is," Pinker said. He analyzed in detail the reasons that irregular verbs exist and the differences between English and other languages in an attempt to explain the origins of the "vast expressive power of language...
...chapter Doyle mixes high, historical romance with low, earthy humor. At times Henry is a bit too much the Irish Everyman, modeling so many Celtic vices and virtues that he seems legendary instead of human. What saves Henry from becoming a mere myth, though, is Doyle's attention to detail, his warty realism. For all the great events he plays a part in--the battles, elections, conspiracies and crackdowns--Henry never dissolves into the scenery but stands out against it in painful, proud relief...
...Greg, a dealer of nautical books in Gloucester, Mass., delving into every detail about how Galen died was a way of coping with grief. His seven-year-long investigation became, he writes, "a single thread of purpose in my life. It had kept me from winding up in a detox ward, or from jumping off a bridge, or from shooting someone myself, while I healed." He debriefed everyone, from the psychiatrists to whom Lo described the inner voice that told him "it is time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle...