Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with this intellectual "freedom," Alf takes his liberty in spinning James Buchanan's story with Updike's fictional sense of character, scene, detail and above all, sexual frustration. Historical fiction is all the rage these days--from Umberto Eco to Susan Sontag and now to Updike. The "facts" may not be true, but maybe it's more interesting that way. There isn't much of a market for books on Buchanan--even in his home town--but Updike's book will deservedly land on best seller lists...
...genius flows, in part, from Walsh's capacity to master the intricacies and smallest details of the game. If an opponent devised a defense that nullified the five options designed into the 49er offense, Walsh would quickly create a sixth. Then a seventh. No detail was too insignificant, and no game ever strayed far from his mind. "If we won by 35, I would wake up in the middle of the night and see how we could have won by 42," he says. "In the early days, if we lost by 21, I would wake...
Virginia L. MacKay-Smith '78, special assistant to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, said the report will detail the board's procedures and establish precedents for meting out discipline. The Ad Board will review the current draft of the report on Tuesday...
...report, which MacKay-Smith has been workingon since the spring, will also detail the historyand jurisdiction of the board...
...including landscapes, portraits of peasants and nature studies. Common to most of the pieces are sharp pen and ink lines and warm, subtle washes of color. One example of a landscape work is "A Dilapidated Farmhouse" by Abraham Bloemaert. The small ink lines are used sparingly, yet convey great detail--a few quick lines on a wall suggest hundreds of bricks. The warm color is built up with washes of brown and gray with pink highlights. Like the other pieces in the show, this work shows an intimate scene that gives the viewer a glimpse...