Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, in his attempt to create this balance. Jaffe got entangled in detail. As a result, the movie drags and much of the impact of its frightening theme--the vulnerability of parents to the whims of crazies--is lost. This theme is carried through in its focus on Susan Selky (Kate Nelligan) and her reactions to the mysterious vanishing of her son. But it often gets watered down by the overabundance of minor actions more appropriate to a documentary than a movie of this kind...
Sometimes this attention to detail yields unexpected results, as when Wiley began practicing with the teams again this fall...
...hardware advances of the past five years: a system that will store nearly 7 million words; a sophisticated "32-bit" microprocessor that is far more powerful than the eight-bit chip in its predecessor, the Apple II; and an ultrasharp video display that can show twice as much detail as a standard computer screen. But the key breakthrough is embodied in Lisa's software, the computer codes that make the machine much easier to operate than any other desktop computer. The operator simply takes the mouse in hand, and a little black arrow springs to life on the screen...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft: "The Reagan Administration [is] ripping itself apart. . . the President and his closest associates seem to lack the political energy and the grasp of detail required for a mid-term renewal...
...years ago, doctors began to see more detail with a new kind of X-ray machine that uses a computer to construct clear, cross-sectional views of the body. The CAT scanner (for Computerized Axial Tomography) revolutionized radiology. But now that virtually every large hospital in the country has invested in one, at about a million dollars apiece, another revolution is under way: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, or NMR. Currently being studied for approval by the Food and Drug Administration, the new technology is in experimental use at about half a dozen top U.S. medical centers as well as several overseas...