Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is a minor detail next to the fact that the message displays only shallow knowledge of environmental practices...
...perversely brilliant novelist, acerbic gadfly and now movie actor -- lives in self-imposed partial exile in a massive villa in the postcard- picturesque town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi coast. All his surroundings are serene. Vidal, 67, is a tireless, disciplined author, and his house is in every detail of location and layout designed to enhance concentration...
ABOUT 40% OF AMERICANS DRINK WINE at least occasionally. Any of them who latch onto WINE SNOBBERY (Simon & Schuster; $20) will have their eyebrows raised by this self-styled expose of what's behind -- and what sometimes goes into -- the noble beverage. In remorseless detail, British oenophile Andrew Barr explains how France's supposedly rigid appellation laws protect mediocrity more than excellence, why cheap champagne is often better than top brands costing upwards of $40, and how producers have got away with murder -- literally -- by dosing their wines with dangerous additives. Like most Savonarolas, Barr could lighten up a little...
...scandals capped a spring and summer of monarchical discontent. In April the palace announced that after two years of separation, Princess Anne would divorce Captain Mark Phillips, her husband of 18 years. June saw the publication of journalist Andrew Morton's best seller on Princess Diana, portraying in excruciating detail the travails of a young woman trapped in a cold and loveless marriage. Morton's accounts of her five suicide attempts and struggles with the eating disorder bulimia were shocking enough. Worse, by monarchists' reckonings, were the signs that Morton had enjoyed the cooperation of Diana's friends and relatives...
...Bear? In recent weeks research teams at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park have put this question to two different computer models. The results, while differing in detail, are strikingly similar. Before the effects of the Landers earthquake are taken into account, neither model flags the region around the Big Bear fault as particularly menacing. But as soon as scientists factor in the degree of ground movement and its direction, it pops up on their computer screens, color-coded red for danger...