Word: detailism
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...people interact under oppressive and crowded conditions. Those students who choose to work out at Wellbridge obviously have no interest in anthropology. They care little about the fascinating cave drawings that have been discovered in Southern France. These pictures surprise us with their bold use of line, their detail and realism. The curious among us will wonder, Who were these ancient people? Where did they come from? How did they live? Why, 30,000 years ago, did they suddnely disappear, leaving behind five or six Nautilus machines in the basement of the Malkin Athletic Center cave...
...cover what I think is important, and some of that is an enormous amount of detail," Kernighan says...
...ownership of more land than federal law permitted. The document was an option agreement strengthening the appearance that the real owner was someone else. Mrs. Clinton has said she does not remember drafting the paper, and the story had been known previously, though in less detail...
...investors with the Clintons in Whitewater, and Jim Guy Tucker, Bill Clinton's successor as Governor of Arkansas. All three have been convicted of fraud in cases brought by Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Clinton replied, "I've given no consideration" to pardons; then he described in some detail the procedure he would follow if he did. That struck some columnists as dangling the prospect of a pardon in front of Susan McDougal, who has been jailed for contempt because she refused to answer Starr's questions as to whether the President testified truthfully (on videotape) at her trial...
There's evocative atmosphere in the period detail and perky faux-'60s tunes. A pity these are wasted in a movie that, like many a pop tune, has a cute idea but a simpleminded lyric...