Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...VENERABLE ALL-male military college, was more than happy to accept Shannon Faulkner among its latest recruits -- and why not? Faulkner had a 3.7 grade-point average and actively participated in sports. Then, after sending the 18-year-old from Powdersville a letter of acceptance, the school discovered another detail: Shannon Faulkner is a she. The Citadel retracted its offer. Faulkner, who legally requested that her high school delete references to her sex on her application, is suing, challenging the school's sexual segregation of the student body...
Murdoch was most impressed with Diller's attention to detail and tight hand on the purse strings. "He was a very conservative manager," says Murdoch. "He would arm-wrestle movie producers for months." But after Murdoch moved to Los Angeles and started taking a more active role in his entertainment company, Diller began to chafe. "I never really felt I worked for Rupert Murdoch," he says. "I made decisions as if I owned the place." A turning point came at a News Corp. board meeting in the summer of 1991, when Diller made some suggestions that seemed to be ignored...
...particularly not in the paintings from 1979 on, when glimpses of the human face and body start appearing in Rothenberg's work. These are bluntly autobiographical, fragments of depression that crunch a lot of extreme feeling into a very small figurative compass. They are miserable figuration, sparse in detail, almost resentfully so, but piercing in their plainness. They bear no relation at all to the general run of '80s Neo- Expressionism, which was overblown, self-dramatizing and almost industrially repetitive...
...easiest examples to understand is sand dunes, which maintain their overall shape despite winds and sandslides. Researchers at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center built an artificial dune, a tiny sandpile sitting on a sensitively balanced plate, to study this behavior in detail. In one experiment, they dropped 35,000 grains of sand onto the pile one by one. As the sides grew too steep -- in some cases, by only a single grain of sand -- avalanches would make the pile collapse. Then it would start growing steeper again, until it was time for the next avalanche...
McCombe also did not dispute reports that Voss, after returning to work this year, has missed work again. After spending two weeks on the "November" shift--a detail that includes frequent walking and running, Voss allegedly reinjured his back and spent more than a week in a body cast...