Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines peer through the intimidating mass of bad ones. Almost every poem has a least one strong image or technical device which works well. Her best poem deals with an unpretentious subject: "A Child's Visit to the Biology Lab." When she describes formaldehyde jars, her use of simple detail works beautifully...
...itself is slowly deteriorating. The corruption that has long been one of its largely hidden ingredients is now being exposed and examined under the twin spotlights of sophisticated investigative reporting and relentless legal prosecution. In addition, charges of police brutality, much of it committed against blacks and documented in detail by the Chicago Tribune last fall, have contributed to the growing disaffection of the usually pro-Daley black voters, who make up about 30% of the electorate. With the help of a forceful civic group, the Better Government Association, the Sun-Times revealed the scandalous land deals involving Alderman Thomas...
...like the Quimbaya pectoral (see color page) with its strange deity, man-bodied and bird-beaked, whose bifurcated wings of head dress echo the sweep of the gold blade beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino and Calima - shared, whatever their differences of society and religion, a superb instinct...
BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS is an attractive volume. Many skillful illustrations--the original woodcuts--snare one in a tangle of detail. And the stories reveal the idiosyncracies of their authors more than any standard literary styles in fairy tales. John Ruskin moralizes, while Mark Lemon, the first editor of Punch, comes across very romantically for a man who earned his living by a pointed...
...Nixon gets the news better and straighter from the 20-to 50-page press summary delivered to him before 8 a.m. each day by White House Special Consultant Patrick Buchanan. The transcripts should thoroughly dispel the myth. In his Feb. 28 meeting with Dean, the President discusses in impressive detail what the newspapers are saying about the woes of Campaign Finance Chairman Maurice Stans...