Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...observation -- referring to a 1940 letter from Bernstein to fellow gay composer David Diamond, in which Bernstein claims he has forsaken sex for art, Burton notes, "There is something uncharacteristically hysterical about his self-pitying tone" -- but such analytical moments are lost in the flood of numbing chronological detail...
...declare it. Last year, according to recently released disclosure forms, the Clintons chose to hang on to picture frames from Tom Hanks (value: $530); silk neckties from Donna Karan ($255); and sneakers with CLINTON printed on the tongues, from an Arkansas shoe manufacturer ($525). The faux- Magritte-ish painting (detail left) Stewardship by Greg Mort ($1,200) was a gift of the artist and his wife that was presented to the Clintons by their real friends Tom and Cynthia Schneider after the President saw it at their Maryland home...
...INNOVATION, LAST WEEK SAW the launch of our new on-line service, TIME Daily. A supplement to the computer version of the magazine that we put out each Sunday night through America Online, TIME Daily highlights each weekday's top national and international stories, shaped with the same telling detail and knowing perspective as stories in the magazine. With AOL's interactive bulletin boards, TIME Daily enables us, as does TIME on Capitol Hill, to keep subscribers up to date while providing them with a way to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them...
...Diplomatic efforts to establish a cease-fire in the civil war have amounted to nothing more than "handwringing," an American official said. Meanwhile, the U.S. recommended that the deployment of 5,500 African peacekeeping troops as authorized by the U.N. Security Council be delayed until the U.N. provides more detail on the extent, purpose and cost of the mission...
Attempting to ascertain Eugene Delacroix's theory of painting as 'life,' i might've learned more than intended. An unsettling detail form his published journal (translated from the French, courtesy of the Fogg): "Last Tuesday morning, a little baggage named Marie--19 years old--came to pose. I took a big chance of a disease with her." (Now that's romantic...