Word: detailism
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...workers describe Knowles, who chaired the Chemistry Department from 1980 to 1983, as a highly competent administrator. And they say that his attention to detail is just one of the characteristics that first brought the 55-year-old bio-organic chemist to the attention of University administrators selecting a new dean for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in the early 1980s...
...charges, they can expect to go on trial along with their attacker, if not in a courtroom then in the court of public opinion. The New York Times caused an uproar on its own staff not only for publishing the victim's name but also for laying out in detail her background, her high school grades, her driving record, along with an unattributed quote from a school official about her "little wild streak." A freshman at Carleton College in Minnesota, who says she was repeatedly raped for four hours by a fellow student, claims that she was asked...
Friedrich, whose 12th book, a portrait of Paris in the time of the artist Edouard Manet, will be published next spring, found that TIME's traditional blend of detail and analysis served him well on Desert Storm. "I edited the book much the same way I have edited at TIME," he says. "There's a different time frame, and the chapters are longer than a TIME article, but the essential spirit of the thing is the same: the attitude of reasonably objective observers describing what we have seen or learned." And, we might add, enjoying the luxury of sufficient time...
...takes son Brad and teenage daughter Eleanor to Orioles baseball games, and they indulge his attraction to carnival rides. During a trip to Germany when he was deputy CIA director, Gates detoured to a local fairground, security detail in tow, and rode a roller coaster called the Triple Loop. A man of plain tastes and middlebrow origins, Gates likes to torment elitists at the CIA and the State Department, whom he derides as "guys with last names for first names." He tells corny jokes and Russian jokes. And he is relentlessly practical in a way that sometimes amuses his friends...
...cartoon, unlike an editorial, cannot explore a topic in detail. Limited by space, a cartoonist must grab the reader's attention, hook the reader's imagination, impress a message immediately. In a cartoon, "the message being conveyed usually is not essentially different from those expounded in newspaper opinion columns," says William Thomas, editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times. But as Thomas recognizes, "the manner of conveyance is different--profoundly different...