Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already well under way. The latter part of the year, of course, will be decisively affected by policy actions made now. Still, assuming some easing of policy soon, the shape of next year's economy seems fairly clear-if dismal-to the Board of Economists. Their forecast in detail...
...color. At Petworth, enjoying the relaxed and eccentric patronage of Lord Egremont, he produced paintings like Music Party, Petworth: its forms dissolving in a bath of russet light would look extreme for Monet in 1895, let alone in England 60 years earlier. In the last landscapes, the world of detail and substance has been fully absorbed into the vibration of light, pure self-delighting energy manifesting itself. Except for Blake's, they are the most religious paintings of the 19th century. They are wholly Apollonian. One understands why, after Turner died in 1851, the story got about that...
NASA's manned space program may be suffering from hard times, but the space agency's unmanned exploration of the solar system is continuing to report stunning successes. In the past few years, robot spacecraft have surveyed the planet Mars in exquisite detail, sent back the first closeup pictures of Venus and Mercury, and penetrated the powerful radiation belts surrounding the sun's largest satellite, Jupiter. Now, after sweeping even closer to Jupiter than did its predecessor, Pioneer 10, last December, Pioneer 11 is beginning the long trip to its next target: Saturn...
...finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean in a sharklike submarine after Rackham's treasure. Hergé, the nom de plume of a Belgian genius named Georges Remi, who has had Gallic readers in thrall for more than 40 years, fills his small frames with marvelous detail. If he draws a 1955 Peugeot 403 or the old Geneva Airport, everything is exactly right. Occasionally he breaks out into a full-page picture recreating such things as a complete Persian miniature version of a 15th century battle with the Turks, or the havoc wreaked by an Alfa Romeo slaloming...
...with Cuban premier Fidel Castro, conducted last July by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, McGovern's presidential campaign manager and press secretary, respectively. The article opens up with a ridiculous description of Castro as having "the build of a cornerback, or maybe an Ivy League tackle," and proceeds to detail his diet, smoking habits, and insane driving abilities, concluding with Castro remarking on Peter Benchley's novel, Jaws. All of this seems kind of a superficial approach to interviewing a revolutionary leader, but then maybe Castro wasn't aware of the kind of magazine he would be appearing...