Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Explaining the plane's navigational system in great detail, Hersch shows how the pilot could have drifted over Soviet territory accidentally if only a few small mistakes happened at the wrong times. Flying at night on auto-pilot, the plane was lost mostly because of the crew's laziness and trust in their equipment. Probably confused by the jet's similarity to U.S. spy planes, the Siberian commander decided to play it safe and bring down the unknown plane...
This book is best, though, in the detail with which Hersch describes operations of the U.S. intelligence network. All over the Far East, men in super-secret listening posts are eavesdropping on Soviet fighter communications, radar signals, and even the radio chatter of Russian soldiers...
...late in the day interviewed Vice President George Bush. Bush later told TIME he is convinced the "President is telling the full and total truth" (see interview). That afternoon the NSC met as scheduled, but the problems that had surfaced in Meese's inquiry were not discussed in detail...
...there are sexual provisions. One contract might specify that the husband can fool around only when he is out of town. Some agreements say the husband or wife gets a night or two out each week with no questions asked, and many contracts insist that the bride and groom detail their sexual life histories before the wedding...
...fact, Aulenti has done more than collaborate. Both on the ground floor and in the upper galleries, she has set up a constant dialogue of detail between her building and Laloux's. The limestone screens on which major paintings hang, inserted into Laloux's iron arches, have segments cut out of them through which one glimpses vistas of the original building. Laloux's space is "quoted" by breaches, angles, slippages, unexpected openings; no room is wholly enclosed, yet the effect is never choppy or distracting. Its essential medium always is light. Orsay is theatrical only at one point, where...