Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Department, must be the first who has offered to drop his pants. That suggestion came after a former bookkeeper on trial for embezzlement claimed that she had had a nine-month affair with him. The bookkeeper, named Denise Sinner (yes, really), said she knew Shepherd in intimate detail -- just check for a mole in his groin area. Shepherd, a former president of the American Bar Association, denied the affair and said he was willing to submit to a physical exam. The judge rejected the offer...
...Sterling ad focuses more on an elegant, quasi-rural image of chic. The ad depicts the beige upholstery and warm wood trim of the car's interior--described in loving detail as "a secluded chamber of Connolly leather and burled walnut." A well-worn satchel and a map lie carefully placed on the seat awaiting, presumably, use in some grand adventure. The ad portrays an atmosphere of modern royalty--variously referring to the car as a "kingdom" which costs "only a youngish prince's ransom...
Because his early interior plans are plotted out in extraordinary detail, Predock wins over big institutional clients despite his New Age enthusiasms. When he presented his design for a $24 million California State Polytechnic University Pomona project to the competition jury, for instance, he included floor-by-floor maps of the buildings' interior ambience -- a singular synthesis of engineering and intuition. On a low-rise roof at Pomona, he wants to plant grass and graze sheep. "They think I'm kidding," says Predock. He is smiling, but he isn't kidding...
...goes on to detail the nervous overkill that precedes a Gorbachev visit. Not only do the authorities paint buildings along the leader's route, but then, because "someone said that you like to swerve off your planned course," they enthusiastically paint all the other houses in the city. "They painted the windows...
Last week, less than three months after the Man of the Year issue appeared on newsstands, Mikhail S. Gorbachev: An Intimate Biography (a TIME book; $4.50 paperback, $14.95 hard cover) was in bookstores across the country. The 281- page book, like the cover story, blends fascinating personal detail (the young Gorbachev, for example, attended church with his grandparents) with an analysis of Gorbachev's leadership and reforms...