Word: detailism
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...sexual. In one of the first episodes, Colleen, a woman who is obsessed with success but is also wondrously lazy, and Dunston, a suave private school squash player, must assess the theory of countervalence of the auditory and the physical in intimate experiences. (In simple terms, the characters must detail their experiences with dirty talk during sex.) And as typical Harvard students, they attack the assignment with great vigor. Antonio J. Hernandez ’10, the executive producer of “Ivory Tower,” says, “It’s an interesting idea...It?...
...poor starved, the colonists of Van Diemen's Land enjoyed plenty - kangaroo, oysters, wombat, echidna "stuffed with sage and onion." There was no money for prisons, so many convicts "simply wandered off to live a life of quiet freedom in the well-watered, game-rich bush". With absorbing detail and first-hand accounts, Boyce shows that while life in this new world was hard, it was, for many, better than what they'd left behind. One convict wrote of being "unaccountably indifferent" to the notion of returning home. Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum skins and copied...
...memories - after all, most were in grade school when Clinton did his Blues Brothers schtick back in the 20th century. Now he takes to the stage to deliver campaign appeals that begin as a pitch for his wife as real "change agent" and end in a mix of wonkish detail and spin on the inner workings of Washington and his observations from his world travels...
...Zimbabwe. There, amidst nesting mice, was an old drum with an uncharacteristic burnt-black bottom hole ("As if it had been used like a cannon," Parfitt notes), the remains of carrying rings on its corners; and a raised relief of crossed reeds that Parfitt thinks reflects an Old Testament detail. "I felt a shiver go down my spine," he writes...
...than the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest in the U.S. today. From a general reader's perspective, it's this sort of taut link between a remote buried past and the present that keeps Barbieri-Low's professorial yet approachable history from floundering in arcane detail. (You may want to skim the fastidious passages on Qin and Han tax codes, however...