Word: detailism
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Flatly written, with detail piling upon detail like so much slag on a heap, Maynard's memoir returns repeatedly to the idea of emotional and literary honesty. "Some day, Joyce, there will be a story you want to tell for no better reason than because it matters to you more than any other," Salinger tells her. "You'll simply write what's real and true." Maybe this is it. But where Salinger, or many a better writer, would have fictionalized his truths, opening up new universes for the reader, Maynard sheds no light on anything beyond the little spotlight...
...many," he reminded himself in one of the numerous notebooks he kept, and the manifesto of this belief (not, alas, in this show) is The Painter's Triumph, 1838. It depicts Mount himself in a mood of exaltation, flourishing his palette and brushes and pointing out a detail of a painting to his ideal viewer--not a New York "conosher" but a farmer in a straw hat who still holds the buggy whip with which he has, presumably, driven in from Long Island. On the wall behind, a drawing of the head of Apollo is looking haughtily away from this...
Other FBI agents are interviewing hundreds of people who could help put a human face on the attacks. In Nairobi dozens of eyewitnesses and survivors have told their tales, but every one of the accounts differs on important points of detail. It was a lone bomber; there were three; there were four or five. It was a light pickup; it was a three-ton truck. It bore diplomatic license plates; it had no license plates. The FBI is sorting through all these conflicting stories, feeding them into its state-of-the-art Rapid Start mobile computer system, which can discern...
During two days of questioning, Bwaku told the FBI he saw the attacker long enough to describe him in detail: a shortish man, neither black nor white, with burning eyes, a long nose, straight black hair and a mustache. FBI artists have sketched the face and will now try to find other witnesses who might have seen the same likeness...
...federal courthouse than at a beach on a hot day. He held sessions on Wednesday, not just Tuesday and Thursday, as Oval Office secretary Betty Currie wrapped up her testimony. The next day Clinton confidant Harold Ickes reappeared, along with the head of the President's Secret Service detail and two uniformed officers. Starr was pushing ahead so fast that he used two grand juries simultaneously to collect testimony...