Word: detailism
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...years later, and the Palestinians may finally have proved Abba Eban wrong. The stunning agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. on the so-called Gaza-Jericho First plan is in spirit and even in some detail and language a resurrection of the Camp David plan that they once so bitterly scorned...
Whatever the reason, the first U.S. mission to Mars in nearly two decades, a $980 million attempt to study the Martian surface and atmosphere in detail and pave the way for later missions and human exploration, is lost in space. Gone with it is another chunk of NASA's eroding reputation for technological brilliance. This year alone, the agency has slipped its deadlines on 13 space- shuttle launches, forcing it to cut flights from the schedule. It failed, after multiple attempts, to free the stuck main antenna on the Galileo probe to Jupiter. And on the same day controllers lost...
...BOTTOM LINE: Stories of Ireland today are recorded in vivid detail...
Mahoney has an infallible ear for the spoken word and an eye for telling detail. Whoredom's vignettes are encased in prose so pellucid and evocative that readers may want to stop and reread passages just to savor their rhythms and imagery. Take a look back at Mahoney's reaction to Lillian Hellman's remark about "the little Irish girl." You could do a ton of reading before catching a sentence as fierce and fine as that...
Despite his kids-in-the-hall casualness around the office, Letterman is a fiercely driven perfectionist who controls virtually every detail of his show. "There's more tension than any place I've ever worked," says an ex- staffer. Letterman rejects reams of material submitted by his team of a dozen writers, and he crosses off potential guests by the score. "We'd hand in a list of 50 guests, and he'd say no to 48," says a frustrated former booker. He is also notoriously moody and has last-minute pangs of self-doubt. "In the makeup room five...