Word: detailism
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When Richard Brooks' In Cold Blood, the film based on Truman Capote's celebrated nonfiction novel, was released in 1967, a number of critics complained that it lacked a point of view. Unable to capture the real merit of the book--Capote's masterly accretion of detail in telling the true story of a prosperous Kansas farm family's gruesome murder--the film meanders about, touching on unoriginal themes: that men can kill with no good reason, that boys brutalized will grow up to brutalize, that the pure of heart often die in vain...
...said the detail officer commanded students to back off and get away from...
...additional officer remained with the detail officer until the party ended at 1 a.m., Kotowski said...
...minutes before the detail officer called for back-up, the Leverett tutors on hand had called an ambulance for one student who was drunk, according to Dowling...
...Pooley. "With Rick and Eric, you know you're going to get the story behind the story," says senior editor Priscilla Painton, who along with assistant managing editor Steve Koepp oversaw our election-issue package. "Eric burrows into a story and doesn't come back until he has every detail. Rick never loses sight of the big picture...