Word: detailism
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Clearly, Fischl wants an overall look that is not too finished, consistently "imperfect," with an air of unconcern for its own pictorial mechanism -- the creamy, dashed-off realism of a Manet oil sketch. But this requires a mastery over the detail and frequency of brushstrokes, and a certainty about the drawing embedded in them, that he has not yet attained. He will slide from a passage of near virtuoso colloquialism to one of awkward smearing and prodding, and not fix -- maybe not see -- the difference...
Scheim, who has a doctorate in mathematics, pored over government reports and documents, previous books, and newspaper accounts with unusual patience and a fine eye for detail. And in doing so, he has marshalled a considerable body of evidence showing that members of the Mafia planned and carried out the assassination of our 35th president...
...prostitute who, days before the assassination, tried to warn authorities of the threat to the president's life, to the aging Mafia figure who was killed and dismembered after he told journalists that Ruby was "one of our boys." A spate of these stories, told with glorious, gory detail, makes for chilling reading indeed...
Even after the race, the rowers continue to think rowing thoughts. The winning and losing rowers will discuss the race in great detail long after the boats have crossed the finish line. In most sports, a losing player will shake some hands and forget about the outcome. But even losing rowers can't stop thinking about the race...
...Reagans' enthusiasm for astrology comes as a small, slightly goofy revelation, an old Hollywood side of them that has turned up in Washington, a detail endearing and unbidden and embarrassing. Ronald Reagan has always been a lucky man. Perhaps he and his wife find that the zodiac is a means to codify, organize and predict his luck. Movie stars are suckers for astrology, partly because their business is even less rational than the rest of American life. Great egos need great horoscopes...