Word: detailism
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Sever "reveals an infinite subtlety of form and detail that has always endeared it to architects," wrote Globe architecture reporter Robert Campbell...
...makes it almost impossible for the Fed to gauge the domestic money supply and thus know with certainty how to manipulate it. "Estimates of currency held abroad are subject to considerable error," Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before Congress last August. "We are looking at this issue in considerable detail...
...knew him. By the time he got to law school at Yale, they write, Thomas was already known "not only for the extreme crudity of his sexual banter, but also for avidly watching pornographic films and reading pornographic magazines, which he would describe to his friends in lurid detail." Acquaintances say when they heard testimony that Thomas had asked who put a pubic hair on his Coke can, they recognized his characteristic style. The proprietor of a Washington video store near EEOC headquarters tells the authors that Thomas was a regular in the X-rated section. A lawyer who knew...
...were unable to forget how miserable he seemed going to court or defending himself publicly, or infuriating for others who saw him as a creep who had gone too far. The spectacle of his life's woes on network news took away his carte blanche to detail them in 35mm film. By turning to a style whose emphasis is on the comic, rather than emphasizing something through the comic, Allen succeeds, at times, in making us forget about his life and simply laugh at his jokes...
...education code telling teachers what they should do and when. But the basic structure remains the same. It is a structure forged in the early industrial age: the school as factory turning out regulation graduates, with teachers as laborers, principals as foremen, and supervisors as, well, supervisors, running every detail from the curricular to the custodial in a strictly top-down fashion...