Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...distaste for what he considered the metaphorical rambling of such films as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and for the revenge fantasies of the Rambo genre. Not only was the drama phony (soldiers surfing through an artillery attack in Apocalypse Now) and the detail wrong (Sylvester Stallone launching rockets with the radio button on a helicopter control stick) but an essential point of view was missing. "The story that needs to come out," Dye says, "is the human one: what happened to the people who fought...
Once Dye had the cast thoroughly sore-footed and stinking, Stone began filming, without a break, and continued for nine straight weeks. "They looked mean," Stone says, "and they stayed that way." Roaming the sets, Dye ensured the authenticity of every detail, from Barnes' wicked dagger ("Worn upside-down for quicker killing," Dye explains) to the proper use of white plastic C-ration spoons. No one said "Over and out" on the field radio, and no one wore camouflage fatigues, which came into use after the period depicted by the film...
...request for public release of a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the scandal, Maine Republican William Cohen complained last week, "I have the sensation we've slipped through a rabbit hole into something of a fantasy land. The President is demanding Congress . . . furnish him with a report describing in detail a plan that was formulated and perhaps executed either in or within a few feet of the Oval Office." Stung by such barbs, the White House announced that Independent Adviser David Abshire is regularly briefing Reagan on Iranscam developments and added that the President is quite interested -- as if that...
Until last year no one, not even Nelson Mandela's family knew in detail his current stands on political issues, because he was forbidden to discuss them with his rare visitors. Then the South African government began seriously to consider releasing him as a "humanitarian" gesture, fearing he might die in prison and thereby touch off an uprising in the black townships. Some official might have remembered the warning of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard: "The tyrant dies and his rule ends; the martyr dies and his rule begins...