Word: detailism
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Whatever the outcome, the voice of the South will be heard more clearly than in 1988. Candidates were forced that year to spread themselves so thin over such a wide area that few Southern concerns were addressed in detail...
...people, whose deformity (and the sense of outsidership it fostered) resonated with his marginal subjects -- the whores, dancers, cabaret singers, the proletariat in search of cheap lurid pleasure, in sum the Montmartre demimonde -- to produce a truly "compassionate" art. This is largely a sentimental fiction, as Thomson argues in detail in the show's excellent catalog...
...Firmer, More Youthful Figure. The explanation -- to the extent that there can be one (after a certain uncritical mass is reached, a best seller best-sells because it is a best seller)--is that the villains were the partners of a rich, greedy, overbearing, dishonest law firm. In loving detail, the reader was encouraged to hate these poltroons...
...video teleconference with more than 90 chapters, Aramony apologized for paying too little "attention to detail or to the way some of my actions could have been perceived." Senior vice president Alan S. Cooper was named acting president a day later...
...poet-guerrilla so idealized by "friends of China" had other, more public failings, and Salisbury charts them in detail. Impatient with the slow pace of economic development, Mao launched the catastrophic Great Leap Forward in 1958. The movement forced farmers into communes, abolished private property and set up backyard steel mills to speed China into the industrial age. By 1960 even seed grains were exhausted and millions were starving to death...