Word: detailism
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...about 1:25 p.m. a pedestrian accidentally walked through orange cones at a detail on Mt. Auburn Street walked into a trench, fell and cut her hand...
...Gelernter is an amazing and gifted writer [BOOK EXCERPT, Sept. 22]. His very personal account of violence and recovery after surviving a Unabomber attack carries the reader along with him, inside his mind and heart, from moment to moment. Gelernter's courage is in his compelling honesty and intimate detail. Any of us who dare to even attempt to write must thank him for the gift of this account. BRUCE T. WILLIAMS Renton, Wash...
...Watching the way they work gave me ideas on how to elicit emotions from the actors and audience," he says. He describes in detail the subtlety needed to act in a movie, since the camera picks up everything, and the way that can translate into acting in theater...
...fifteen chapters of the book, each of which could stand alone as an elegant short story, pile on thick layers of detail to create an intensely believable and likable character. Information given obliquely in one chapter may be stated directly, as background, four chapters later. But this repetition is never boring; the gradual accretion of detail makes the various twists and turns of Larry's life seem eminently plausible...
...Deal and Mund, who met in rehab, have been the core members. They started playing as a duo, but formed a band when the touring Red Red Meat summoned Kelley Deal as an opening act. Deal is frank about her time in rehab, but doesn't go into detail about why she ended up there. Though she started writing songs after she left rehab, she insists that song writing isn't therapeutic for her and that she's not using song writing to excavate a painful past. "I hate singer/songwriters, I hate James Taylor," she declares. "I didn't want...