Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Collaborating on a book enhanced the week-to-week journalism of Duffy and Goodgame. Explains Goodgame: "It forced us to work far more closely together, sharing every detail, every interview, every hunch with each other." Working so closely also pointed up the odd-couple nature of the Duffy-Goodgame relationship. Duffy likes to write early and, when circumstances permit, quit early for a gourmet dinner like take-out pizza. In contrast, Goodgame does his best writing late at night, often after downing several bowls of his homemade seafood gumbo...
...Investigators in San Diego discovered a cache of several rolls of film that showed the manhandling of a 17-year-old girl who was partly disrobed by a corridorful of rowdy Navy and Marine aviators at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The snapshots detail an episode in which the hopelessly inebriated teenager staggers down the hall while drunken officers tear off parts of her clothing. A hotel guard finally leads the girl away as a Navy officer zestfully waves her jeans and panties...
Perhaps Harrison's most valuable gift is her conviction that spending time in the world is a supremely exciting experience. All of these essays are dense with a kaleidescopic abundance of sensual detail that records and conveys that excitement...
...chapter of surpassing sadness and chilling detail, Radzinsky uses the commander's testimony for a moment by moment re-enactment of the July night. At 2 a.m. Yurovsky roused the sleeping family and led them downstairs. Nicholas carried his ailing, hemophiliac son, Alexei; Alexandra and her four daughters followed, accompanied by the four family retainers who were all that remained of a retinue of hundreds...
Rosovsky remembered Marquand as "a perfectcivil servant." He was a "stickler for detail" whowas known to send as many as six pages of typed,single-spaced notes to a caterer when planning anevent, Rosovsky said...