Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision to detail an "expressed unwillingness" definition comes after the Administrative Board on Monday rejected the task force's definition of date rape as sexual intercourse without expressed consent...
...through his back-from-retirement concert at Madison Square Garden in 1974. Most of the familiar movie-bio cliches are here -- young Frank argues with skeptical parents over his show-biz dreams ("I can do this! I can be someone!") -- but so is a lot of flavorful, crisply told detail. The young singer goes on the road as part of a quartet put together by Major Bowes; picks up work in a club where he has to wheel his own piano accompanist around the room; is discovered by bandleader Harry James but soon jumps to Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, where...
...appointing Carter and calls him a "superb choice" because of his ability and readiness to hear all sides. You shouldn't forget that Carter's enormous contribution to the Camp David accord between Israel and Egypt was due in part to his relative evenhandedness and his meticulous attention to detail...
...also funny. The character pick at each other endlessly, and argue over opera in unbelievably petty detail. They disparage various divas ("That Greek mezzo with the hair on her chest") and other opera buffs ("[Renata Tebaldi fans] are a mean little bunch") and occasionally show traces of real emotion. The two actors negotiate nicely their characters' swings between sarcasm and genuine despair...
...being an entertainer in such a complex field is a difficult task, "an ongoing battle with scientists" who always assume the worst--that an ignorant reporter will get a detail wrong and destroy the story. Angier says scientists' mistrust of writers is unwarranted. "By and large, I find my colleagues to be incredibly well-trained and sophisticated about science," she says...