Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fascinatingly banal or else ambitiously epic. For example, keep a list of everything you've eaten, item by item, in the last week: "Two Snickers bars, eight cups of soup, one serving of baked scrod...".Update us on your nightly dreams. Transcribe your internal monologue in the most minute detail: "Itchy feeling in neck. Where did I put the keys? Damned aerosol." Rank the hottest people in your house. Tell us what you're wearing, right...
Miller is an excellent teacher; he explains kitchen basics in just the right amount of detail without making us feel that we're being talked down to. (The only slow lesson was the second one, on going shopping, which was at times reminiscent of an elementary school nutrition class.) The course answers all the questions you never bothered to ask, and then some. How long will those chicken breasts last in the fridge? Use the four-day rule for all protein-based foods. What's the best way to peel ginger? With a spoon. Don't know the difference between...
Both authors offer elegantly literary tales of disintegration and the irretrievable alienation of affection, putting their relationships under the equivalent of a fluorescent bulb that makes every detail off-color, a little bit dirty--but very, very visible, for better and for worse...
...with him, sources in Washington say Secret Service agents are vouching for the account that she aggravated an old back injury while skiing in Utah. According to officials, Mrs. Clinton was sideswiped by another skier, which led to a review by Secret Service headquarters to make sure her security detail had been in place to deal with any sudden, threatening movement toward the First Lady. Mrs. Clinton, who wore a hat and dark glasses, apparently went unrecognized by the crowd at Deer Valley. She was standing at the bottom of a slope filled with inexperienced skiers when one of them...
...must tailor their response based on individual relationships, below are some guidelines for friends, lovers, roommates and relatives of people with eating disorders. These guidelines are based on the advice of Sheila M. Reindl and M. Suzanne Repetto of the Bureau of Study Counsel and are available in more detail at the ECHO office in the Old Quincy Basement, F entryway...