Word: detailism
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...book is not for those casual fans. The veteran sportswriter and Wall Street Journal columnist spent a year covering the foot soldiers who prep the gridiron for glory-and who ensure the event is delivered to an electrified crowd, in flawless high-def, and with proper acoustics. In meticulous detail, St. John takes readers into the Super Bowl's engine rooms with this series of profiles of the marketers and ad execs, party planners and TV producers, architects and gophers charged with buffing the game to its glossy shine. (See pictures of Super Bowl entertainment through the ages...
...Obama's visit was the announcement of two special envoys, Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell, both of whom represent a silent reproach to the Bush Administration. Holbrooke will have the near impossible task of untangling the mess in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a problem exacerbated by recent American inattention to detail in the area. (The deterioration toward chaos in Pakistan, especially, surprised some of the President's closest aides...
...disclosures made to date from this kind of source raise as many questions as they answer,” he said. “They detail the kind of payment, but don’t say what...
...Updike's hallmark was his glittering, gloriously vivid style. His talent for spotting detail, for capturing in prose the slightest shift in light or in a character's mood was unmatched. It was not the most fashionable of gifts. While his contemporaries practiced the rock-ribbed realism of Hemingway and Carver or the high-concept contraptions of the metafictionists, Updike conducted his pursuit of eloquence and wit almost alone. Ironically, it was sometimes held against him, and he was tagged a lightweight. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Washington that almost qualifies as business as usual, except for a small detail: on the campaign trail, Obama vowed to stop the revolving door that lets onetime lobbyists go to work for the Federal Government and oversee contracts that could harm - or help - their former employer. And one of the first things the new President did in office was seemingly make good on that promise, signing an Executive Order barring former lobbyists from joining his Administration to work at agencies they recently lobbied. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...