Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROSE resembles Hemingway's with crisp dialogue alternating with action described in clean, factual, concise sentence. All of the stories are short and the best ones achieve a density of expression that almost approaches poetry. As in Hemingway, crucial information often has to be drawn from understated detail, especially in the stories openings: Pancake hits the ground running and his beginnings are as tightly packed with meaning as his epiphanic endings. A story as concise as "The Honored Dead" has to be re-read at least once: a tour de force of technique, the story explores the complex mixture...
...Cathedral in New York City, where L 'Engle has an office-and the haziness of his position between fiction and reality typifies the rest of L 'Engle's work. Several earlier novels are set in the same Upper West Side environs of the cathedral, which are described with enough detail and care to give visitor a shock of recognition at the subway stop. L 'Engle regularly sends her characters off to drink hungarian coffee at the same Colombia University coffee shop to which she politely invites an interviewer...
...majority makes clear the incompleteness of their purported solution, by failing to detail how exactly a weighted lottery system would work. A simple call for a "weighted system" does nothing to further the debate on course enrollment, nor does it approach a solution...
...cinematograpner, in Manhattan to work 16-hour days in a Long Island cottage. There she subconsciously evoked a mood by wearing Dinesen's favorite perfume, Fracas. "It was eerie," she remembers. "The identification was very deep." Almost every line demonstrates an affection tempered by careful attention to detail. As Dinesen went into decline, Thurman reports, "she let down her guard, she relaxed her crooked smile, and her eyes-which she still carefully made up with kohl-seemed to stream with light. There was something almost inhuman about her fragility. . . She was, in fact, dying of malnutrition. After the asparagus...
...found that the sun rose just behind the Capitol dome, bathing it in a spectacular, almost mystical light. "You can imagine," he recalls, "what that vision must have meant to a boy from the hill country." It meant something to Caro as well. A life examined in such detail, he maintains, is a fit representative of history. Says he: "Biography, properly done, can illuminate an entire...