Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crossexamination, Lenzner stumbled across a curious bit of detail as Moore described a private meeting with the President on April 19, 1973. At this meeting, Moore told Nixon that Dean had shown him a list of White House staff members who Dean believed could be indicted for one Watergate offense or another. In the case of Ehrlichman, however, Moore repeated Dean's remark that Ehrlichman's "problem might be involved with the Ellsberg case," a proposition that Moore did not understand at the time...
...perception of the presidency?" Insisting that this was highly relevant, Baker asked: "Is the presidency so shrouded in mystique, is there such an aura of magnificence about the presidency, is there such an awe some responsibility . . . that the presidency in some in stances must be spared the detail, must be spared the difficulty of situations which . . . might be considered, by some at least, to be frank, open declarations of criminal offense...
...weighty compactness of detail and insight in Wilson's prose, it gives the impression of a broad sweep of scenes and events. The irony is that although Wilson ends by calling for full-scale books on both Fuller and Fred eric the reader of this essay may not feel in need of another word on either subject...
Instead, each subject appealed to Arbus's sensibility as a unique person who dealt with reality in a specific manner. Her subjects' ways of enduring and coping with life touched off chords in her own psyche. She emphasized external detail and physical pecularities as a sign of mental turmoil festering below...
Arbus's photographs are extremely horrifying and disturbing in their precise attention to detail and the use of strobe flash to delineate textures. Images of a drooling, grimacing baby singe themselves into your retina. A lady's face--swathed in layers of chiffon scarves, wrapped by a gauze turban and netted veil, huge drops of shiny pearls hanging from her ears, and a fluffy fur stole across her chest--peers out over a double chin somehow eerily disembodied...