Word: detailism
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...though the movie pays its respect to romantic detail, it's really just this big cat fight over this man who is decidedly handsome but not convincing enough to be worth fighting over. Apparently, women only shine if men are just not present, because Lange plays a widow and Schaech might as well be dead for all his presence does to move along the plot--though he is cute, so he can stay. But I digress...
Ultimately, the figures and scenarios in Walker's mysterious, melancholy art don't provide the instant recognition that stereotypes require. Although she may toy with stereotypical tropes like hair texture as a signifier of race, close attention to visual detail distinguishes her subversive and exploratory project from an uncritical parroting of racial cliches...
...Shuger's opinion of the media's Monica coverage: "The press is in a big respectability-puffing, nose-holding phase in its reporting of the Clinton sex scandals, deploring--in exquisite detail--having to cover all that executive branch breastage and groinage...
...Like a young man remembering his first love, I remember every detail of St. Moritz that day...its brilliant sun, the crowds, the long walk to the stadium, the white coats and caps we wore, the sublime ice here at the Kulm for skating figures, the darkening shadows of a setting sun, the enthusiasm of what seemed to me like huge crowds," Button said...
...deposition, putting it in context, dissecting its implication. Last Thursday the President was hyperventilating about a minor Associated Press story that suggested a Kenneth Starr Whitewater witness might be financially connected to the archconservative Pittsburgh philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife. "The President is completely and totally obsessed with the intricate details of the story as it unfolds day to day," said a defense lawyer on the case. This is partly a reflection of character, partly of circumstance. "In one sense," says an adviser, "it's no different than if he were dealing with affirmative action or planning to bomb Saddam Hussein...