Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bought certain gifts for Clinton, Starr issued a subpoena in March to a Washington bookstore; its sales records show that Lewinsky purchased a copy of Vox, Nicholson Baker's postmodern novel about yuppie phone sex. To Starr the move was routine evidence gathering, the authentication of a small detail in Lewinsky's story. But the subpoena caused an uproar among booksellers and free-speech groups. Author Baker charged that Starr was "undermining the Constitution" and demanded that he "get down on his knee pads and beg the country's pardon...
...most carefully: Boris Yeltsin is turning into Leonid Brezhnev right before our eyes. In a rerun of the Kremlin drama circa 1978, the President is ever more frail and shambling, his eyes glazed and his speech slurred. He rules like a czar--from on high, without much attention to detail, and by decree. Like Brezhnev, Yeltsin has no intention of stepping down, and the people around him will do anything to keep him in power, lest they lose their own. Last week they launched what may be their campaign for re-election in 2000 by shoving aside the most potent...
...Chloe had its heyday during Lagerfeld's tenure in the '60s and '70s, and although the designer returned in 1992, it never managed to regain its cachet. Moufarrige arrived at McCartney's studio in December 1996, pretending to be a Rome retailer. "I was attracted to the level of detail she put in her clothes," says Moufarrige. "And it helped that she did a very good job of convincing me that a 25-year-old and a 45-year-old could wear...
Attention to Detail...
...trial had been hailed as an opportunity for France to explore a shameful episode of its past, Crumley says ?the French remain in denial about a lot of things -- 15 percent of the population now votes for Le Pen, a man who says the gas chambers are a ?detail of history.?? And with the far right moving inexorably into France?s political mainstream, the issues at the heart of Papon?s trial are more current than ever...