Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some plans have been drawn in impressive detail. One involves three waves of carrier-based planes that would strike in quick succession under cover of predawn darkness. First, fighter planes would launch missiles that home in on radar to knock out once again the radars at the SA-5 missile sites at Surt and Benghazi. Then, attack planes would wing in low and fast to knock out the missiles and their launchers. Once they had been destroyed, the third wave would hit adjacent airfields, destroying the runways so that Gaddafi's 550 combat aircraft could not scramble to counterattack...
...subliminally at first, the likeness between the naked rabbit in a puddle of watery pink fluid on the plate and a fetus curled in its amniotic sac. But in a more general way, the pinkness of the rabbit is the rosiness of human nudity, and Lopez sets down every detail of it with an exact balance between detachment and anxiety. Nothing that can be seen is skimped--not even the freezer burns on the meat (which, Lopez explains, thawed and had to be refrozen dozens of times over the months of painting it) or the frosty, glaucous eye, staring...
...singular draftsman. Lopez's pencil drawings, both tiny and enormous --Water Closet, 1970-73, is 8 ft. high--display a command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness...
...basic course in economics disclosed that most of them had retained the concepts they had learned but had forgotten much of the terminology and had spent little time reading articles about economic questions in newspapers and magazines. These results led to course revisions which weeded out some terminological detail, emphasized the conceptual material, and substituted contemporary issues on place of the abstract, classical problems previously given to the class...
...reaches far and wide to define his new subject, the emotional life of the middle classes in the 19th century. It is a challenging subject, and Gay challenges it with polymathic verve. In his first volume, The Education of the Senses, Gay concentrated on sex and demonstrated in exhaustive detail that despite what many people think about the Victorian era, nice girls did it then too. Now, in the second volume of a prospective six, he turns to the slightly more complex question of love and demonstrates once again that yes, they enjoyed...