Word: detailism
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Only two moments from that year remain arrested in sparkling detail, the day I arrived and the moment I left after my first year had finally ended. Everything else is nicely blurred...
...Simpson double-murder trial got down to the stomach-wrenching details of the crime itself. The prosecution introduced graphic autopsy pictures of the victims, as the county coroner described in meticulous detail how the wounds and brutal knife gashes were inflicted. In a familiar and increasingly troubling development, two more jurors were replaced; only two alternates remain...
...disposal of the enduring human fascination with grunt and groan. By the early decades of the present century, there had emerged in the U.S. an entertainment industry that would eventually prove to be all-pervasive and ever more given to decking out our base impulses with sweaty and imaginative detail. It awaited only the youth culture that began stirring and shaking in the 1950s to take full advantage of the possibilities in rock, films and TV. The result was a pop culture more pointed and grown up, but also more shameless and adolescent; sometimes both at the same time...
Langone's work is wonderfully provocative, notonly because it's filled with anecdotes dug fromthe bowels of Harvard's Countway Library ofMedicine but also because his sources arepredominantly primary. Langone observed a grossanatomy class firsthand and shadowed medicalstudents and doctors to detail their experiences...
Today, he is best remembered in the school forstarting an annual block party patterned after thestriver's Row festivals he knew as a child. Braggorchestrated every detail, form the dunking tanksto the parents who turned hot dogs...