Word: detailism
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...truth. Citing an analysis by Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing, ABC's "Good Morning America" reported today that the figure is about 870,000, more than twice the official estimate of 400,000. A special digital analysis was used to evaluate Park Police photos in greater detail. The study has a 25 percentage-point margin of error, which would mean attendance could have been as low as 655,000 and as high as nearly 1.1 million...
...voice on the other end. It was Detective Philip Vannatter of the L.A.P.D., reporting a double murder and requesting the deputy district attorney's help in obtaining a warrant to search a suspect's home. To Clark it all seemed routine, if gruesome, until she heard one specific detail. "God," she said, "sounds like a pretty tony address for this kind of thing...
...will probably go down in history as the signal TV event of the 20th century, outstripping even the Kennedy assassination, the first moon walk and any number of very special episodes of Silver Spoons--I think the trial ultimately transcended television. As testimony dragged on and on, slowly accreting detail and complexity, the drama in Judge Ito's courtroom began to remind me of nothing so much as an overstuffed 19th century novel, one of those ripping, 800-page doorstops from college, a real cinder block of a narrative. We got cliffhanger after cliffhanger, and more subplots than a contemporary...
...book it was, 'You see a black leather jacket, fingertip length, has lapels like a suitcoat? You don't, you owe me three seventy-nine ... You get the coat back or you give me the three seventy-nine my wife paid for it at Alexander's.' It was the detail. I said I'd do the movie, but they had to put back everything they paraphrased." This took three weeks, but "they put every goodie back...
MICHAEL CRICHTON BRINGS EVERYTHING together: science fiction, detail, cutting-edge technology and tremendous imagination. Time did an excellent job of presenting the literary qualities that make his books so enjoyable. But I am disappointed that Sphere was not mentioned. It packs in all that I enjoy, and in my opinion it is his best work. MATTHEW SKILLING Macon, Georgia aol: Vince12...