Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would make us wince in mixed conversations. The rape trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson accelerated the trend toward frank sex talk, and the rise of Viagra brought to mind graphic images--featuring Bob Dole. Granted, in the Clinton scandal, 13 months of saturation coverage and prurient detail have conspired to make this episode especially troubling. Yet its enduring legacy may simply be the adding of the term oral sex and its vernacular synonym to the list of once avoided phrases that are now used openly--the continuation of a trend that was well under way and probably...
Shakespeare also showcased Powell's obsession with detail. In the film, the dressing gown worn by Gwyneth Paltrow appears to be festooned with iridescent jewels--but they are actually dried beetle wings, intended to replicate Elizabethan materials. When Paltrow's character pretends to be a boy, she wears a top with embroidery delicate enough to remind us that she is female. But Powell also put birdseed pouches in the crotch of Paltrow's breeches so the actress would remember to walk like...
DIED. IRIS MURDOCH, 79, erudite and macabre British writer, philosopher and Booker Prize winner; after a battle with Alzheimer's disease; in Oxford, England. In her 26 novels, including A Severed Head and An Accidental Man, Murdoch described in intricate detail middle-class characters in the throes of what she called "erotic mysteries and deep, dark struggles between good and evil" (see Eulogy...
Even DVD pales beside real HDTV, however, as I learned when I finally drove to Miami last week to see it demonstrated in all its vivid, eye-popping detail at an electronics store. Too late for the Super Bowl, but, hey, there's always next year...
...course, I could have pointed out to my friends that the statistics quoted in the Times--they included figures on frequency of deodorant application, underwear changing and hand washing that I would just as soon not go into in detail--had been put together by a French newspaper, Le Figaro. I could have added that hard on the heels of the Times story I saw a Reuters item about Metro officials having spent five years developing a new fragrance designed to dress up the aroma of Paris subway stations...