Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great advantage of egg-tempera is its precision. Thin and fast-drying, it permits none of the slick tricks that oil does, but is fine for detail work and for unobtrusively creating a sense of light. The sky in Wyeth's Young America, for example, has more air than paint about...
...familiar an address around the world as Whitehall, 10 Downing Street or the Quai d'Orsay, is a vast concrete and limestone materialization of the military mind. Like the military mind, it inspires awe, often admiration, sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters...
...soldier who possesses a passionate sense of detail, an instinct for the bonds that unite a commander and his troops, and a nice flair for showmanship...
Charges & Reports. It was a case that needed detail to counter the Administration's detail, that needed documentation to make its charges stick. Far from producing such evidence, the Republicans were often reduced to questions prefaced by such phrases as "some have charged that-" or "there is a report that-." Many a Republican on the committee was frankly impressed by the Secretary's well-briefed grasp of facts, dates and documents. Wisconsin's waspish Alexander Wiley said to him: "You have had a long chore, sir, and have done a grand job for yourself, I would...
Brought in from the garden for the show, Laurens' curvy nudes looked rather like stones worn by the sea's, thumb into bland symbols for human flesh and frame. His figures were perfectly innocent of erotic detail, had none of the heavy grossness of an Epstein. They just showed a good-natured man's happy eye, a sculptor's firm hand...