Word: detailism
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...fifth time, portrait artist Michael J. Deas has created our cover. He does painstaking research into his subjects and takes about 12 weeks to finish a painting. At left, you see the full portrait (on the cover, we crop the image much closer), which shows Deas' obsession with detail, down to one of the fountain pens Twain favored. The pen, made by Conklin Pen Co., originally of Toledo, Ohio, had a ridge on it that prevented the pen from moving. "I prefer it," said Twain in a 1903 endorsement, "because it is a profanity saver; for it cannot roll...
...Then it became an uproar. Some were standing and leaving; some were shaking their fists at me." Carlin, who died of heart failure on June 22 at age 71, told these stories with typical brio when I interviewed him for my book Comedy at the Edge--recalling nearly every detail and filling in the ones he didn't by consulting the journal he kept throughout his long career (a record that grew spotty only in the years he was wasted on cocaine...
...illustrated popular versions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, establishing her whimsical style for a generation of young readers. Her animals appear perky and knowing, the children scrappy and game. She showed a botanist's eye for detail in the elaborate floral borders framing her poems and stories...
...Perhaps most telling, only 100 cell-phone violations were issued in North Carolina to teen drivers in 2007 - a detail that may be of interest to California as it gears up for a similar cell-phone ban for teen drivers under 18 that will take effect July...
...blood-sugar levels that he believes encourage children to overeat. That means cutting back severely on the highly processed carbohydrates that make up the backbone of the diet of too many kids. A first-time trip to the clinic includes a visit with a nutritionist, who listens as parents detail what a child has eaten over the past couple of days--and then informs them that almost all of it will have to go, to be replaced by lots of whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables. "It can be challenging," says Suzanne Rostler, a top nutritionist at the clinic...