Word: details
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...just one or two accusers but many more. While none were ready to be named, eight among them pledged willingness to back up their claims in court if Adams sued the paper. Moreover, despite his insistence that he could not recognize the women, their published vignettes abound in evocative detail...
Hardly surprising, then, that the savory city of rebels and craftsmen would appeal to Hughes, the longtime art critic for TIME and the epic chronicler of his native Australia (in the best-selling Fatal Shore). In Barcelona Hughes shows, in magisterial detail, how the brash province has always been as distinct from Spain as Catalan is from Spanish (derived as it is not from early Latin but from later). At the same time he notes, with affectionate irony, how Catalans have sometimes sung the praises of their unique tongue in Spanish. Some Catalans, he remarks, feel homesick even while...
Wolfgang Peterson directed this 1981 German box office smash about life on a German U-96 submarine during World War II. In gripping detail, Peterson describes the sweaty, claustrophobic quarters of the boat, and the soldiers' desperate situation as they are under constant threat of attack by the British Navy. Jurgen Pruchnow stars as the stern commander, trying to keep the German effort alive...
Whatever the outcome, the voice of the South will be heard more clearly than in 1988. Candidates were forced that year to spread themselves so thin over such a wide area that few Southern concerns were addressed in detail...
...poet-guerrilla so idealized by "friends of China" had other, more public failings, and Salisbury charts them in detail. Impatient with the slow pace of economic development, Mao launched the catastrophic Great Leap Forward in 1958. The movement forced farmers into communes, abolished private property and set up backyard steel mills to speed China into the industrial age. By 1960 even seed grains were exhausted and millions were starving to death...