Word: detailism
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...Germans were confronting their countrymen's bestiality in detail more vivid than some could stand, many Israelis were reluctant to relive it. "People here live the Holocaust," says Tel Aviv resident Noga Reshef, 29. "They teach it in school, they hold ceremonies, and every year there is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Day. We can't escape the Holocaust; it sits on our shoulders." Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience. "I'm afraid of these movies," said Pinchas Pistol, a Plaszow survivor who witnessed too much of the Nazis' random sadism. "Every time...
Incidentally, my rooming group for next year will likely contain two Asians, two Hispanics, one Black and one Caucasian. But in the interest of furthering your relentless search for racial discord. I kindly request that you overlook this trivial detail. Kenneth...
...American publishers. He capitalizes on the romantic nation of Arab story-telling, as thousands have before him. But Schami boasts an advantage that Nerval or Flaubert could never attain: he is an Arab. He understands what makes Damascenes tick, and embues his account with a wealth of genuine detail that French Orientalists could only dream of (when they weren't dreaming about those slave-girls they bought in Cairo). At the same time, he knows his surroundings well enough to misrepresent them subtly: Damascus appears slightly trated up for the Western reader, slightly more quaint and foreign than it actually...
...words, "Executive Producer: Charlie Sheen," appeared on the screen. Usually we are given this information at the beginning of a film, but something tell me that Sheen, who, as the kidnappers, is on screen for 90% or more of the film, was too embarassed to admit this little detail until at least half of the patrons had left the theatre. Only from the mind of a two-bit Hollywood actor could such a project burst forth, like Athena from the head of whoever. This movie sucks...
Many White House officials view the arrival of Harold Ickes much the way Jane and Michael Banks came to regard the coming of their strict new governess, Mary Poppins. In an Administration that likes to think big and play messy, Ickes is devoted to detail and driven to discipline. While he has by no means reversed the fortunes of the President's health-care reform bill -- last week many legislators on Capitol Hill were sounding taps again for central elements of Clinton's plan -- the 54-year-old New York attorney has brought to the White House skills that have...