Word: detailism
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Perhaps the biggest public embarassment for Murphy, however, was the special detail he ran to protect Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud during His Highness' three-month stay on the top two floors of the Charles Hotel...
...mothers, for their part, are mystified by their daughters' seemingly ungrateful attitudes, shaking their heads with regret. What the daughters don't know are the dark secrets of the past that the mothers keep inside, which haunt them in the film in excruciating detail. One by one, the mothers reveal their scars to their daughters, who draw strength from their mothers' catharses and finally realize the full extent of their love. After years of self-doubt, they feel acceptance...
...that the cost of doing nothing will exceed the cost of change. White House officials admit that Clinton must still explain how the plan will be financed. But there is resistance to being too precise. "I would not assume that the public is going to want to know every detail," said a senior Administration official. "The public is far more interested, as far as we can tell, in knowing that the plan is rooted in sound values...
Lyle has been painting a picture of Jose and Kitty as monsters who ran their sons' lives in the tiniest detail, crushing any aspirations to independence by handing out cruel punishments for trivial offenses. Much worse, he testified, when he was seven, Jose "would be in the bathroom, and he'd put me on my knees. He'd guide me in all my movements, and I'd have oral sex with him." Also, "he used objects, a toothbrush, some sort of utensil brush . . . he'd take my pants off, lay me on the bed. He'd have a tube...
BOOKS Three former Hizballah hostages look back with dignity, harrowing detail and humor. CINEMA M. Butterfly and Farewell, My Concubine plumb the androgynous East. MUSIC In Miles Davis' final live album, a burst of brilliance. TELEVISION The first televised Porgy and Bess offers more drama for the eye than...