Word: detailism
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...members and other "slimes and assholes," Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang detail in East Los Angeles and foot patrols in the downtown area between 1977 and 1981, years in which his second marriage was collapsing, made him feel increasingly violent and out of control. He was in fact sued during this time for beating a suspect, although the case never went...
...York attained its now partly lost eminence is the grand theme of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25), a detail-crammed psychohistory by Ann Douglas, who teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. As she interprets this era, the modern artists who gathered in New York to create a new American culture relied upon "terrible honesty"--a term devised by the crime writer Raymond Chandler--to overthrow the romanticizing, domineering matriarchal ethos of the late Victorian...
...sense, that's all you can ever safely say about Hollywood. The problem has always been to discern, in advance, in helpful detail, how to pass Go and (nowadays) collect $200 million domestic, God knows what in the ancillaries. For movie trends-or even individual hits-do not reveal themselves until they are actually thundering down on us. No executive, no agent, certainly no mere movie reviewer usually spots one until it is actually rolling over his toes, sharp pain belatedly signaling where the most money is likely to be found for the next few months-and that the victim...
Knowles admits that "the scale and complexity of the modern university prevents a return to the simple structures of the past," which is true. Career administrators have increasingly replaced professor-administrators in positions that demand full-time attention to detail outside the classroom...
...mayor has fired, suspended or reprimanded 74 officers and has hired a new police chief, Richard Pennington, from Washington. Morial and Pennington have also taken the unprecedented step of inviting the FBI to help them clean up the department. Pennington has limited the amount of detail work that officers can do, forced them to report all details through official department channels and outlawed detail brokers. Perhaps most significant, Morial gave police their first raise-5%-in eight years. Says Morial: "We knew people were going to scream and holler about the detail work. But it was something...