Word: detailism
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...years, Galloway says, the mostly white suburbs around Buffalo have been hostile to minorities. Security guards and police keep blacks under surveillance, he claims, and even have a special lingo for this detail. "Radio calls would say, 'We are stopping a unit," Galloway says, "which is an acronym for 'Unwanted Nigger In Town.'" (Police deny using this term...
...etching "Rape of a Young Woman" has more uniform hatching lines and intense detail, while the remarkable and dark engraving "A Knight, Death and the Devil" contains more varied and subtle tones. The etching falls between the dramatically expressive and provocative engraving and the folk art-like crudity of the woodcut...
...heightened and almost anal-retentive detail of earlier etchings soon expands to include looser, more casually rendered portraits (such as the mid-eighteenth century "Preste de la Loy") and quick political caricatures (such as those of eighteenth-century Britain). The medium is particularly effective on the larger scale for which this specific printmaking process allows. In Giovanni Piranesi's eighteenth-century "Arch of Ianus Quadrifons," the sheer size and weight of the severe values combine with intense detail, resulting in a piece of surprising presence...
Opponents, however, argued that the proposal lacks sufficient detail...
...Towle from Raleigh, North Carolina. "I don't think there is a South Carolinian alive today who has not received a letter from him. When you graduate from high school, he sends you a letter. Everybody." It is Thurmond's service to his constituents and his attention to detail which make him so popular in his home state. If he runs again, as expected, Towle says the 93-year-old legislator would be favored to win. "Even if the voters are worried about his age or his health, that does not mean they'll vote against him," she adds. Thurmond...