Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nash declined to detail the allegations whencontacted yesterday...
...Columbia is always a legitimate threat," Assistant Coach Peter Mandeau said. "Any time we get a win over Columbia, we know we are doing our homework and paying attention to detail...
...Columbia is always a legitimate threat," Assistant Coach Peter Mandeau said. "Any time we get a win over Columbia, we know we are doing our homework and paying attention to detail...
...woman [THE SEXES, March 8]? She obviously lacks subcutaneous fat, resulting in protruding neck tendons, bulging veins on forearms and wrists, and mammary glands, if any, that are all too easy to hide. Is that the truth about a woman's body? What an anatomical heresy! The only feminine detail I could discover, as a gynecologist, was the makeup on the eyelashes. PETER J. CARPENTIER, M.D. Antwerp, Belgium...
Huxley and Orwell, of course, didn't think of themselves as science-fiction writers. The true artists of the genre are a tribe apart. Many created "future histories" that are worked out in exquisite detail. Robert A. Heinlein, for instance, was a hugely popular SF writer but of a surprisingly gloomy and gothic cast. His prediction for the late 20th century was summed up briskly: "Considerable technical advance during this period, accompanied by a gradual deterioration of mores, orientation and social institutions, terminating in mass psychosis." It was hard to watch the Clinton impeachment trial without feeling...