Word: detailism
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...background only very slightly less black. Rothko wasn't fiddling with an art-historical endgame here, trying to see how flat and stark he could make his pictures. The Black-Form paintings, as they are known, are emblems for existence itself, statements at a near-molecular level of detail about the minimal order necessary to distinguish life from the disorder of death. Indeed, look at them long enough and they make you think of a doorway into extinction. Do they prefigure Rothko's suicide in 1970? We don't know. What we do know is that eventually Rothko stood...
...lieutenant governor in 2002, then GOP governor Frank Murkowski rewarded her strong campaign by appointing her chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, an obscure but important board that regulates oil-field production. In her short tenure, she gained attention not for her grasp of technical detail but for making public ethics accusations against a fellow board member who happened to be chairman of the state Republican Party. She resigned in protest, leaving the $122,400 job after a year. (He was later fined for, among other things, sending confidential information to an industry lobbyist.) But Palin emerged...
...kind of cancer her patient has and then proceed with a highly specific treatment course of Roche drugs. "For a long time, we acted as if all cancers are homogeneous," says David Heimbrook, Roche's V.P. for oncology discovery. "Now, because we can quickly analyze a tumor in greater detail, we have a much better sense of what's the best way to eradicate...
...more specific on national-security matters than on domestic subjects. Offered more detail on a range of topics, compared with Palin, but oddly, gained no particular edge from his greater familiarity with national and international issues...
After a summer without popcorn chicken, ranger cookies and Harvard fruit salad, students may have returned to those same dishes, yet something is amiss in the dining halls. The small cards that used to detail each food’s caloric content no longer accompany every dish. This act of removal has omitted an ineffective way of keeping healthy. This removal is a relief to those who worry that the excessive attention to the number of calories in a dish exacerbates unhealthy eating habits. Furthermore, the cards were an ineffective way of maintaining healthy eating habits, given that caloric content...