Word: detailism
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...chapter of surpassing sadness and chilling detail, Radzinsky uses the commander's testimony for a moment by moment re-enactment of the July night. At 2 a.m. Yurovsky roused the sleeping family and led them downstairs. Nicholas carried his ailing, hemophiliac son, Alexei; Alexandra and her four daughters followed, accompanied by the four family retainers who were all that remained of a retinue of hundreds...
Rosovsky remembered Marquand as "a perfectcivil servant." He was a "stickler for detail" whowas known to send as many as six pages of typed,single-spaced notes to a caterer when planning anevent, Rosovsky said...
...through to the public was largely negative. Tough press accounts of Perot's business practices, particularly his use of private investigators, made an impression. So did the constant assertion that Perot lacked a program to flesh out his promise of "action, action, action." When asked if "the lack of detail in Perot's proposals for solving the country's problems" worried them, 61% of voters said...
What he has brought to the Metropolitan amounts to a portrait of a company embarking on a cultural shift. Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov are first-rate productions that offer what opera lovers want to hear: Russian classics performed with great depth of detail -- in orchestration, diction and idiomatic style. The Kirov embodies the Russian tradition of opera, which is very different from the Western one. As the maestro says, "The chorus and the orchestra are the hero. The chorus is < stronger than any star, and it must be a single personality divided into...
...cool water gardens, the arcaded patios, the fractal-like proliferation of detail in the stucco domes, the mind-defeating intricacy of the mosaics with their cordons de la eternidad (literally, "ribbons of eternity") interlacing in continuous patterns: such things cannot be crated, shipped across the Atlantic and put in a museum. One fragment of a 14th century mosaic dado from the Alhambra, however beautiful, is only a detail and cannot convey the overwhelming effect of the patterning on the palace's actual walls. Thus, although this exhibition looks fine inside the pyramid of the Met's Lehman Pavilion...