Word: detailism
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...that happened. They were career officers, not political appointees, all holdovers from the Bush Administration. Hillary, in particular, had the sense that some of them didn't like her and Bill, preferring the more staid Bushes. Hillary told Vince she wanted their own people installed in the White House detail...
Foster discussed the First Lady's concern with Watkins, the Hope, Arkansas, native who had come to the White House with the Clintons. But Foster didn't see any immediate cause for concern. Suddenly replacing the White House security detail could in itself have led to unfavorable press...
...that Hillary, in a fierce argument with Bill, had smashed a lamp in the family living quarters. The story spread like wildfire, embellished with the claim that Hillary had actually thrown the lamp at Bill in a raging argument. Hillary assumed the story came from the White House security detail, confirming her fears about their loyalty, and was upset that no one from the Secret Service came forward to deny it. The story soon appeared in Newsweek, and Hillary and Bill vented some of their anger on Foster and Watkins for failing to act on her earlier concerns. They were...
...cannot be tossed off as another American Psycho, the famously godawful Bret Easton Ellis novel to which it has been likened. Ellis' treatment of sadism has a dopey campiness that Homes is incapable of. She takes her crazed protagonist very seriously, describing his every abhorrent desire in mind-boggling detail that amounts to a twisted, writerly artfulness all its own. And as in her last book, In a Country of Mothers, the story of a psychoanalyst's debilitating obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice she has created a compelling ally...
...Costuming by Holly Maples (a B.U. student) also lends a hand to creating the atmosphere of America 50 years ago: for the wealthy ladies, dresses you'd expect to see on Greta Garbo; for the less affluent girls, simpler, plainer dresses suitable for Betty Crocker. The most charming detail is the plaid suitcases that were the rage in the 1940s, carried by characters costumed as traveling salespeople...