Word: details
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Landscape Ryder could handle -- though not for reasons Turner would have approved. It made fewer demands on particularity. "There was no detail to vex the eye," Ryder wrote of one view of a lone tree in a field near Yarmouth, Mass. And so "I squeezed out big chunks of pure, moist color and taking my palette knife, I laid on blue, green, white and brown in great sweeping strokes . . . I saw that it was good and clean and strong. I saw nature springing into life upon my dead canvas. It was better than nature . . . I raced around the fields like...
...detail still to be ironed out: building the exchange. A site has been chosen, but officials don't know when construction will be done, what it will look like or when trading will begin. Talk about speculative...
This dinner, with its plump pheasant, understated Bordeaux and unobtrusive help from the Top-One School of Butlers, has been planned to the last detail by the city's most charming couple, American painter Hurley Reed and his companion, Chris Donovan. One guest, a genealogist who resists the temptation to find distinguished ancestors for rich people, is so obliging at parties that he can be put "next to a tree and he will talk to it." Another, a television-documen tary producer, temporarily quiets the victim of a recent crime with her theory that all human beings exist psychologically...
...existence of these secret organizations was first disclosed in 1976 by a U.S. Senate committee investigating CIA operations. Former CIA Director William Colby told the story in greater detail in his 1978 memoir, Honorable Men. His first assignment in the agency, Colby wrote, had been to organize stay-behind networks in Scandinavia...
...decade ago, scientists puzzling over cancer cells resembled 18th century Egyptologists in their struggle to decipher ancient hieroglyphics. Now they have assembled a biological Rosetta stone that has enabled them to lay out in sharp detail the changes that cause a cell to go from normal to malignant. "The cancer cell used to be a black box," says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate...