Word: detailism
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...public schools that actually got to close on election day and proudly house voting booths, someone came up with the idea of transforming our cafeteria into a fake polling place, complete with actual levers to pull. Statements of platforms were distributed, and we watched and discussed the debates in detail. As election day approached, I weighted my choices carefully and was a little nervous when I got to school that...
...pages, and it is a brilliant feat of compression even at that length, without a wasted word. Moreover, every major subject has multiple entry points: individual artists, schools, national origin, techniques and so on. There's no art publication in existence that gives the reader such richness of detail and coherence of organization...
...hard to keep the equipment clean," Jeff Pzena says. "People who are careful and detail-oriented make good beer, but here we take care of all the clearing and sanitation for you, so it's inevitable that you'll make good beer...
...created and sold Simpson's sanctimonious, self-serving best seller, I Want to Tell You, and thereby raised money to pay Simpson's lawyers. With American Tragedy, he has produced quite a different book, a serious effort that describes the conduct of the Simpson defense in rich detail...
...instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches from plastic soldiers. Nothing new, but "Devlin realized with a dreary fatigue," the author writes, "that he would be obliged to discover the reason for this detail...