Word: detailism
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...muse, adjusting only lightly to the headline trends, are looking especially smart. Christian Lacroix creates with his head in the past-the past of the French masterpieces in the Louvre. To some women his work is overdecorated, but his clothes are endless reveries on color executed in minute detail, such as Lesage embroidery, usually found only in handmade costumes. Similarly, Japan's Issey Miyake, who has never cared a whit about hemlines or gold chains, played a gentle counterpoint to the mainstream with radiant fabrics and a magicianly way with material that amounted to sculpting...
...potentially deadly threat, the tests open up a critical window for averting disaster. Just because a little information is good, however, does not necessarily mean that more information is better. Physicians are starting to have at their disposal a whole new panoply of advanced tests that provide more detail about what is going on inside the human body-often down to the molecular level--than ever before possible. Yet as Jernberg discovered, such tests can warn of dangers that are so far off, they may not be worth worrying about. Knowing too much, it turns out, may prove just...
Zander, who is music director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and artistic director of a boarding school for young musicians, taught the audience how to remember every detail of the concert...
There is only one difference, but it is a fairly significant one. Unlike the civil courts, where all the details of a trial are accessible to the general public, every aspect of a case before the Ad Board is strictly confidential. The only available information is a small brochure published each year. Along with outlining general procedures, the brochure provides a number of sample cases which demonstrate the consequences of certain crimes. Any detail of a specific case--the participants, the charge, the testimony, the result--are secret...
...governments to determine the fate of her husband, who disappeared in the Guatemalan jungle in March 1992. Although U.S. officials told her several times they believed Bamaca was dead, they gave her no definitive answers; they insist they have none. Nor did they mention any possible CIA involvement. That detail emerged only after Congressman Robert Torricelli, a Democrat from New Jersey and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, learned from sources of his own that in January the CIA had sent the State Department and White House a report containing an allegation that Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, once...