Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike most of the recent prophets of economic decline, however, Bluestone and Harrison take an explicitly radical view of the current recession, its origins, and its impact. The result is a sobering--if somewhat jargon-laden--account of the effects of factory closings on working people. In shocking detail, the two economists show that high unemployment has led not only to desperate migration, but also to poor mental health, higher infant mortality rates, and community disintegration...
...Hart's cost cannot fairly be compared with other office buildings, public or private. There are few Government departments or corporations, for example, that average one boss for every 27 employees, which is the ratio in the Hart Building. The structure, furthermore, shows laudable attention to detail and quality of materials and craftsmanship. Among its features are a 3-in. marble veneer (in contrast to the ⅞ in. to 2 in. common in cheaper structures), solid brass hardware and double-glazed windows to save energy...
...balanced presentation, the book also gives equal time to Mailer's stormy personal life, which now boasts six wives and eight children. It recounts in detail how Mailer stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, an episode that catapulted him into the public eye as much as his books. Mills demonstrates how Mailer's attempt "to make a revolution in the consciousness of our time" was exercised not only in his writing but also through his personal, uninhibited, impulsive actions. There is no dearth of colorful detail--she records brawls at the Village Gate in New York City, drunk speeches...
...floor, tuck his knees to his chest and roll from side to side. He jokes about one day posing with Jane Fonda, both in leotards, displaying the fitness of their sleek bodies. He has signed a contract to write a diet book in which he will explain in detail his theory that if you drink and eat at the same sitting, you get fat because the liquid washes away digestion-aiding enzymes in the mouth...
...Hottest Read: David McClintick's Indecent Exposure, which told in absorbing detail the sordid story of the David Begelman affair and which all of Hollywood read in Xerox weeks before it appeared in print...