Word: detailism
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Both authors offer elegantly literary tales of disintegration and the irretrievable alienation of affection, putting their relationships under the equivalent of a fluorescent bulb that makes every detail off-color, a little bit dirty--but very, very visible, for better and for worse...
...must tailor their response based on individual relationships, below are some guidelines for friends, lovers, roommates and relatives of people with eating disorders. These guidelines are based on the advice of Sheila M. Reindl and M. Suzanne Repetto of the Bureau of Study Counsel and are available in more detail at the ECHO office in the Old Quincy Basement, F entryway...
...danger of undoing the election and the Clinton marriage, there was at least a reason for us to pay attention to Monica. Last week there was none. All that remained was what Monica calls romance and the rest of us know as gossip. Even with all its lusty detail, its hilariously unnecessary cigars and Altoids and thongs, the Starr report, when it appeared, had consequences. Monica's Story, which exists because of the theory that what we want is yet more embroidery of these stories, has none...
...here it is, yet another 1,000-plus pages, and in the end it was worth the wait. Kissinger again displays an intellectual ambition, provocativeness and mix of sweep and detail that make other memoirs seem pale. Of course that doesn't mean Years of Renewal (Simon & Schuster; $35) is a relaxing beach read. The narratives and character sketches (including those of Nixon and Ford, excerpted in this issue) are often vivid delights, but they are leavened by meticulous trudges through old battlegrounds (some repetitive of previous volumes) that make up in defensiveness what they lack in concision. To paraphrase...
...editors and Aaron Spelling that we do so? Skewering the popular wisdom that beauty is a social construct, this Harvard psychologist argues that we ogle such features because they radiate the health and fertility our species needs to survive. Avoiding ideological rant, Etcoff employs rigorous scientific research and amusing detail to create a great read, albeit one that won't become Naomi Wolf's favorite...