Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HOFFMANN'S UNDERSTATED tone and his sense of detail make his storytelling effective. When Fritz sees his gifts he takes "two or three rather spectacular jumps in the air." Later before Marie walks through a hall close door into the land of the dolls, Hoffmann notes that. "I don't think any of you children would have hesitated for a moment to follow the honest good natured nutcracker who never had a wicked thought in all his life." Jumps for instance are not high they are rather spectacular. And he gently addresses his readers...
Lasch's case against Promethean technology is surprising in its detail but unconvincing on the whole. He suggests that technology has provided us with so many choices as consumers that choices no longer have consequences or indeed meaning: "the freedom to choose amounts in practice to an abstention from choice." This seems doubtful. Are we, in fact, dying as a nation, as a culture, or as individuals from a surfeit of technological riches? Perhaps death from such causes is more common in Lasch's circle than in one's own. Perhaps, indeed, Lasch's acquaintances perish under the stress...
Moreover, the cast also seems to be up against financial constraints. Judging from the xeroxed program and the spartan set, it appears that Producer Anne Dowden had limited financial resources. Yet in spite of these apparent budgetary constraints, both costumes and set reflect a careful attention to taste and detail. The set--like the scope of the play--is appropriately simple...
...crisp appearance of each page is ensured only because coders endlessly scrutinize the placement of every bit of information. "We are completely involved in the visual detail of the page," says Gary Deaton, who supervises TIME'S crew of ten coders. "We pore over every millimeter of the magazine to make sure that everything falls in place, that border lines don't overlap and that pages have a uniform appearance...
Paradoxically, while the would-be carvers were being drilled in meticulous attention to detail, the true hunters in Easton were out in their blinds behind the crudest decoys in all the land. These were goose decoys, fashioned from old tires, plywood goose heads affixed to the rubber in various attitudes of feeding. They were not proving very effective, but this was not the fault of the decoy, nor of the hunter. There had been a full moon, and the birds had fed at night. Now, in the day, they had no interest in food...