Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asks. It was because of this evident difference that Assemblyman Langdon Post last year introduced into the New York State Legislature a bill absolving booksellers from prosecution if they would divulge the source of the illicit product; and while Mr. Post's bill may have had flaws of detail, the proposal is sure, and properly so, in one form or another, to come up again. --New York Herald Tribune...
...scarcely a year out of Princeton. In his journal, he calls the venture a "missionary tour to Pittsburgh." He traveled alone across Pennsylvania on horseback and the trip took 15 days (June 10 to June 25, 1829). His journal, kept on the way. is a masterpiece of detail-the price of horse feed-he drank a glass of milk at Harrisburg-a friend of his father's kissed him after a sermon he had offered in return for a night's hospitality. He felt himself to be a pioneer of sorts and never forgot...
...with a parachute but not his assistant, who was working the flame and smoke pots. Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into his production. No detail was considered too minute for meticulous attention. Hughes himself is a licensed pilot able to perform almost every stunt for which he paid his flyers. He drives a motor car fast but keeps paint on his mudguards. He is fond of golf and Cinemactress Billie Dove, who recently acquired a nickel...
...Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting technically, but his approach? showing what the railroad means to the people for whom it was built?makes the margins of his industrial report bristle with human detail. Director Turin has shown himself cleverer than Eisenstein in one respect at least?he has suppressed propaganda. Best shots: camels loaded with raw wool moving impassively into a sandstorm; close-ups of tossing, tumbling water; natives looking at the first Turksib locomotive...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling...