Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dazzlingly dense journey into the mind of a man who meditates on subjects like the delights of perforated paper. His second novel, Room Temperature, occurs during the 20-minute reverie of a young husband feeding his six-month-old daughter, but it explores, in droll, Andy Kaufmanish detail, the history of a marriage. U and I, Baker's third book, is an extended brooding on a single self-mortifying question: Is John Updike a better writer than...
...Star bought Flowers' story for an undisclosed sum (Clinton says it was $50,000). In graphic detail, Flowers recounted the alleged affair that she said lasted from 1977 to 1989. Accompanying the tale were partial transcripts of about a dozen conversations Flowers taped of herself and Clinton over a 14- month period that ended in mid-January 1992. The Star has refused to let other journalists listen to the entire tape, but in an eight-second fragment made available last week, Clinton can be heard saying that "as long as everyone hangs tough" there will be no problems. "If they...
...Where's the beef?' question before trotting out my personal life story." Clinton realized that a recession- plagued nation was "eager for specific answers" and that Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, whom he considers his main opponent, was "taking the other tack, running on his biography before even attempting to detail what he would do. He's doing what Al Gore did in '88. Gore entered the race without having his message down, so he was pigeonholed as having none. By the time he got it together, he was seen as just a Southern candidate who didn't know what...
...HARVARD EXAMINATION SYSTEM is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
Each interview took more than an hour of slow, sentence-by-sentence translation. The witnesses went into vivid detail about what they had seen when they arrived on the scene: the plane's wreckage and the mangled bodies of the two airmen. Agreement on these details could have been orchestrated by the Vietnamese government, but small differences between the witnesses' stories seemed more likely to stem from the various times at which they arrived on the scene. Their accounts meshed in a way that would have been hard to coordinate...