Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travels took his family throughout South America, Reed has spent 22 years with Citicorp. But in many ways he remains an enigma, variously described by some of his fellow workers as icy and grim and by others as sensitive and humorous. One acquaintance says he has a "passion for detail and no time for mavericks" and that he maintains a studied aloofness with underlings. Associates consider Reed to be direct and serious, possibly to a fault. Says Investment Banker William Donaldson, a fellow outside director of Philip Morris: "He likes to face reality, no matter how harsh it might...
...story of two intriguing men and their problematic relations. The brilliant performances by Gary Oldman as the randy playwright and Alfred Molina as the whining Halliwell necessarily make the film, because Bennett and Frears have all but ignored the charged times in which the Orton story unfolded. Although painstaking detail masterfully recreates the setting of the story, the filmmakers have largely eschewed an attempt to depict the explosive social scene of 1960s London...
...retired Air Force general sits hour after hour behind a long table, recounting how U.S. officials created a clandestine network to ship arms to Iran and the Nicaraguan contras, conducting what in effect was a secret American foreign policy. In minute detail, he exposes the covert attempts of high officials to circumvent the law. Vinegary and unrepentant, he avows that he was carrying out the policies of his President in an appropriate manner. The President again claims ignorance, saying he is still waiting to find out what his own Administration...
...Adam, meanwhile, is rolling through the grasslands of Wyoming, sporting new shades, listening to Van Morrison on the stereo system of his beloved Catalina and exulting that in his "rubber-cushioned automobility I feel closer to America than in any amount of digging around for the fact and the detail...
About 50 Senate members agreed on a voice vote to consider the recommendations in detail at a meeting late this month...