Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without going into detail about the web of financial transactions which makes such staggering deals possible, one point should be made: while stockholders benefit from lucrative buy-out offers for their stock (the largest shareholders usually being company directors), and while buyers make huge amounts of money by breaking up acquired companies and selling them piece by piece or strengthening them before reselling the whole, all the billions of dollars spent, invested and earned in this matter do not go directly to any economic production...
...start things off, on consecutive nights in Los Angeles, something close to the ultimate hitter's and pitcher's daydreams were played out in such implausible detail that it strained decency. The A's led in the ninth inning of the first game, 4-3. Had there been one out instead of two, two on instead of one, that would have been enough. But the win-or-lose situation was perfectly framed, as that stubbly spirit Gibson emerged from the infirmary to take his only hack on crippled legs that said home run or nothing...
These flaws were present in his earlier four-hour-plus documentaries on the Nazis, The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) and The Memory of Justice (1976). But The Sorrow and the Pity was, like a great realistic novel, dependent for its force on the patient, even repetitive, accretion of detail. By now, length and weight have become an end in itself for Ophuls, a way of enforcing the audience's commitment to his work. Anything that demands this much of us cannot be casually dismissed. Too much, though, is streaked with irrelevancies: digressions and dubious stock footage; interviews with people...
...author has lavished an accumulation of vivid detail on re-creating his special part of the world. "He's immensely attached, in the most loving way, to Cairo," says Edward Said, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Indeed, Mafouz seldom leaves the city, where he lives in a modest apartment with his wife and two daughters. Retired in 1971 from his post as an adviser to the Minister of Culture, he spends most of his time in cafes, drinking coffee and exchanging gossip. He is also known as one of the best joke tellers in Cairo...
Shawcross ferrets out a wealth of political, diplomatic and intelligence detail, as well as a fragrant cache of jet-set gossip. In his prime, the Shah had a special yen for Lufthansa hostesses but also entertained a variety of lovelies flown in from Mme. Claude's in Paris. His other tastes were rich, but, oddly, Iran's leading personage did not eat caviar...