Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Finkelstein, thinking things through to the minutest detail is a way of life...
This is particularly true in his depiction of "wall Paper in House at Lundy, California" (1939), where the meticulous detail makes the viewer forget that they are looking at a decrepit piece of tacky, messy wallpaper. In each of these, Adams elevates his subject with an irony and skill that recalls, yet precedes...
Before the days of exhausting and exhaustive testimony would end, Hill would coolly and impassively detail the nature of Thomas' alleged harassment while she worked for him in government positions from 1981 to 1983. Words like "penis" and "breasts" and "pubic hair" would enter the public record repeatedly in so somber and untitillating a fashion that no one in the hearing room would blanch, let alone smirk or giggle. It was clear that the differences in the Hill and Thomas versions on what transpired a decade ago were not a simple matter of differing sensibilities -- oversqueamishness on her part...
...teal blue dress, her demeanor polite, cooperative and never defensive, she painted a vivid and sobering portrait of what it means to be victimized by sexual harassment -- from the fears, embarrassments and humiliations she experienced to the repercussions it had on her work, health and career choices. Given the detail and consistency of her testimony, it was almost inconceivable that Hill, rather than describing her own experiences, was fabricating the portrait of a sexual-harassment victim...
Wolff said that Mozart's "Requiem," for example, can be fully understood only when a music scholar knows of the events that affected Mozart at the time of composition. "Each little detail bolsters the aesthetic presence of the work," Wolff said...