Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second thought, maybe it isn't worth reading these thriller-chillers. It sure is funny though when Spiro Agnew kills off his fictional counterparts to Walter Cronkite, Ben Bradlee, and Barbara Walters. His powers for delineating detail (with gory, sensationalistic precision) seem to reach their apex at these points in the narrative...
...Chilling Detail. Two days later, police finished unearthing the tractor-trailer prison in which the 27 captives had been entombed. The vehicle bore year-old license plates, and its tires were still inflated. Investigators quickly traced it to the Palo Alto Transfer & Storage Co., where they learned that it had been sold last November for $2,700 to a man named "Fred...
Police officials speculated that the kidnapers not only spent more than $10,000 to underwrite the ghoulish venture but also planned it in chilling detail. The kidnapers took care to stock the big truck with water, blankets and a small chemical toilet, and to install two air vents before it was buried. They apparently spent a good deal of time in Chowchilla studying the movements of the schoolchildren; when they finally ambushed the school bus, they did so at a place and a time when they knew nobody would be around...
...educators return home next week, the dangers of living in Israel will weigh upon them constantly and remind them that there are "two separate nations of Arabs and Jews." But for a month at least, they are able to leave their worries behind. "Our hosts paid attention to every detail," Rothenberg says. "We were treated like kings...
Stern obviously has immense compassion for the people he represented. But it is only when he begins to detail his compassion that the book drags. He talks about his sympathy for the underdog, even to the point of writing that as a child, "I never liked the Yankees because they won all the time." At times he is unbelievably patronizing toward his clinets, to the effect "that the tall towering mountains make it impossible to see the horizon, easy to lose hope," or quoting John Denver's stupid song, "Country Road...