Word: detailism
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...school student, a nephew of Senator Ted Kennedy, surrendered to police in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday, to face charges that he raped a 29-year-old woman on the family estate over Easter weekend. In a nine-page affidavit that described the alleged crime in clinical detail, Palm Beach County state attorney David Bludworth filed one charge of sexual battery, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 4 1/2 years in prison, and a misdemeanor charge of battery...
...people actually just give $5 or $10," came her quick repartee. The sun was fading and I was getting a little annoyed. I went into great detail about my plans for the small amount of money I might have--plans wich included not giving it to the senior class gift...
...cruel facts of European conquest and expansion. Solid thought and research lie behind them, and though the conservative would complain that we know the story of Manifest Destiny's barbarous self-interest, the point is that until this show, we did not know (or certainly not in such detail) about its ramifications in painting and sculpture...
...idea for outflanking Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard with the bold "Hail Mary" movement to the west, as described in loving detail by Schwarzkopf during his famous victory press conference, actually originated in the Pentagon, not with the general...
...Yorker's reputation can survive this assertion of privilege is a puzzle. Nowhere in journalism is the quote more sanctified. A typical New Yorker profile is nothing but a string of lengthy quotations from the subject and his or her associates, with a connecting tissue of irrelevant scene- setting detail. Malcolm has admitted to fabricating some of this detail, such as moving the site of a conversation from her flat in New York City to a restaurant in California. The myth is that by relying so heavily on seemingly verbatim quotations, the journalist is functioning as a crystal-clear piece...