Word: detailism
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...fourth annual conference, titled "The Devil is in the Detail: NAFTA and Its Impact on the Latino Community," took place in Austin Hall and drew approximately 30 listeners...
...typhoid. Like 1983's The Day After, which powerfully fantasized a nuclear attack, the mini-series THE FIRE NEXT TIME (CBS, April 18, 20) means to be a cautionary tale about the devastating effects of global warming. Part 1 is a stunner, combining epic special effects with sharp detail to tell the poignant story of an everyfamily struggling to adapt to a disastrous world. Part 2, alas, goes astray, slighting environmental and social issues for mundane family melodrama...
...blood, sweeping up spent cartridges and reducing automatic guns back to semiautomatics. The FBI denied the report. The Davidians,too, employed a kind of spin control that implied something will remain intact to spin. David Koresh's attorneys talked about contesting some government assertions -- in court -- and described in detail a surrender scheduled after the group's Passover. Koresh also deputized two New York City lawyers to handle his book, television and movie rights, hardly the act of a man contemplating martyrdom...
...about attributions -- or to contemplate, in the same place at the same time, so many of the sublime works of Titian's old age, from The Flaying of Marsyas to the Ancona Crucifixion. The drawings and prints alone, which show the mutual development of Titian and Giorgione in intimate detail, reveal the use made of their designs by engravers like Domenico Campagnola and demonstrate Titian's own astonishing power and inventiveness as a maker of multiple-block woodcuts...
Back then, Johnson insisted regulations were being followed and said the detail did not take away from regular police work. But after several months, then--General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 scuttled the detail, arguing that prince had stayed too long and that the department's mission was protecting Harvard...