Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew whom in high school. Lauren's roommate Carol, who is comping for The Crimson, bothers her endlessly with story ideas. The quality of Union food receives a slightly ludicrous amount of play. There is no construction in the Square (Silver graduated in '78), but otherwise, as far as detail goes, Death of a Harvard Freshman could be your roommate's diary...
...September 9, 1980, President Bok wrote that this was a matter that he would either want to discuss in detail or say nothing about in print at all. He chose the latter course as the only feasible one. I could not quote from his letters...
...their basic format is constructivist, "drawing in space," their internal imagery is very much not. Her works like Zaga, 1983, or Cantileve, 1983, when one gets down to the detail, begin with a profusion of animal and botanical spare parts that Graves has cast directly in bronze. The things in her delirious lexicon of shapes include the fiddleheads of giant ferns, fragments of woven rattan, dried anchovies, pig intestines from the Chinese market below Canal Street in New York City, leaves of the Monstera deliciosa (another bow of homage, this time to Matisse, in whose late works that indoor plant...
Childhood, that traditional turf of the first novelist, is examined at a distance in William McPherson's refreshing debut, Testing the Current (Simon & Schuster; 348 pages; $15.95). The slow awakening of youth is noted in minutely observed and somewhat magnified detail, but at a third-person remove, almost as if the author were examining his cast through binoculars...
Soon Reagan called. In fact, he was able to explain the misunderstanding. He regarded the new arrangement as a mere housekeeping detail, a formality. Lack of communication, aggravated by staff mischief, was the root problem. I was convinced that Ed Meese had been as misled as the President. The trouble lay elsewhere in the President's staff...