Word: detailism
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...everyone is well aware, the trend in housing changes has attempted to incorporate students' choice (i.e. their control over the none-too-little detail of Where they would live for three years) with the University's much -Celebrated (and recent) commitment to "diversity." Of course, we have evidently come far enough that the complete repudiation of student choice is not only conceivable, but feasible for the administration to enforce. Instead of attempting to maintain some balance between these two concepts, the administration has decided to ignore one in order to achieve the other. And what really has been achieved...
...sudden flows of sticky, honey-colored tree resin have ensnared all manner of small life forms, including beetles, spiders, and even lizards and frogs. Moreover, as this natural polymer hardens, it becomes virtually airtight and waterproof. Not only are extinct organisms like Cano's bee preserved in exquisite anatomical detail, but biological molecules such as dna appear to be largely protected from deterioration. When something gets caught in amber, says Wheeler, it's like putting it into a time capsule...
...suspended in the velvet night. "A Little Princess" is practically shot through the diamond lens of a platinum camera, on gold-rinsed film. This movie positively drips wealth. Even the wooden planks of the bare attic where Sara is thrust after her fall from grace are examined in lustrous detail by the camera's eye, and of course the opulence that surrounds her before her little bout with poverty is absolutely sumptuous. Reality is suspended as surely as if this were an animated feature...
...into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic" still lifes are arranged on different levels like an architectural stage, glittering with invitation. Each detail--the sheen of silver, the frosting of sugar and spice (real luxuries then) on a macaroon or a doughnut, the translucency of candied fruit--speaks of privilege...
...April 19, Bush was in Houston reminiscing with a friend about his former White House staff members and how he used to play horseshoes with them. It was then that the news came out of Oklahoma City. Bush flipped the television coverage off and on, called his Secret Service detail chief for word from the disaster area. As it turned out, one victim had once been part of the Bush entourage: Al Whicher, a Secret Service man. Bush wrote in his letter, "He was no Nazi. He was a kind man, a loving parent, a man dedicated to serving...