Word: detailism
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Inside the Nov. 1 ticketed Harvard event, Jiang spoke with great pride, describing in meticulous detail the many scientific, cultural and economic achievements of China's 5,000-year history...
...State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word of the February deal was flashed to Washington from Africa and elsewhere. A participant in a Foggy Bottom meeting in early March says the completed shipment was described in detail at that session. But U.S. officials raised no alarm that the U.N. embargo had been violated...
...uniformed division" officers, agents in white, black and gold uniforms who guard the White House proper but not the President himself. That distinction may undercut Merletti's "protective privilege" argument because uniformed officers don't stick as close to the President as the body men in the "protective detail," and therefore may not require the same legal privileges. But Starr is unlikely to keep his hunt narrow; if Johnson rules in his favor, he is certain to work his way up the Secret Service chain of command...
McCarthy strives hard to do for cowpunching what Melville did for whaling: describe in documentary detail how the job is done. Similarly, his Ishmaels on horseback try to harpoon the mysteries of an indifferent universe. Of course they fail, but at least they don't end up talking like cafe philosophers. That role falls to an old Mexican who is trundled out in an epilogue to vaporize about death, dreams and history...
...Simpson's fate reflects the shame heaped on his whores: his heart failed while he sat on the toilet reading a biography of Oliver Stone. Biskind's book ends with a death too: the 1988 demise of brilliant but burned-out director Hal Ashby, whose Coming Home, The Last Detail and Shampoo were touchstone films of the '70s. Other directors fared only a little better, ushering in the '80s and '90s with divorces, addictions and bankruptcy. Indeed, the last chapter's title is the final line of dialogue from Easy Rider: "We blew...