Word: detailism
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...pleased to report that over the pastthree years we have built a group of facultydeeply engaged in curricular issues and ablewisely to address these matters bothphilosophically and in detail," Knowles said...
Other professors contacted yesterday refused todiscuss the meeting in any detail, saying eitherthat no action had been taken or that the issuewould be made public at an appropriate time...
...show creates. For her the show is interesting because of the "E.R. culture" that's arising. "There is definitely a bonding that goes on about the show. On Friday everyone is talking about it, and even though we all saw it, we still have to go over every tiny detail." She believes that the show's popularity stems from its pseudo-intellectualism, which makes people feel smart when they watch it. Unlike those who watch the "totally frivolous" 90210, E.R.-viewers come away from the TV guilt-free, almost as if they'd spent the hour doing problem sets...
...beyond that, things get murky. The experts don't know for sure how old or how big the universe is. They don't know what most of it is made of. They don't know in any detail how it began or how it will end. And, beyond the local cosmic neighborhood, they don't know much about what it looks like. Each of these questions is now under study; each bears directly on the others; and each could yield within the next few years to the intellectual and instrumental firepower now being brought to bear on it. Assuming, that...
...Mandela's release in 1990. It is precisely the kind of tale that only a journalistic insider with trusted access to all the players could put together. The second half is less compelling: a more workmanlike, cut-and-paste retelling of the events since 1990, lacking the back-room detail and color that make the book's first half a page turner...