Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of a tight Senate race between Kerry and Weld--Blum's testimony was news, you would have thought. But neither the New York Times nor the Los Angeles Times mentioned Blum in its stories about the hearings, and only the Washington Post covered his testimony in detail. Though the Los Angeles Times reported some of what Blum had to say in an earlier story, the noncoverage of the Senate hearing, says Peter Kornbluh, of the National Security Archives, based in Washington, "raised the specter of a government-media collaboration to bury the contra-cocaine story...
...about architecture, he should be known to most people today by one phrase: "Form follows function." It became the motto of all functionalist designers, but it doesn't represent Sullivan's own ideas at all. He wasn't antidecoration. He was, rather, one of the greatest designers of decorative detail, in an age that excelled in it. But he insisted on the primacy of the main masses. Both this and the love of inventive detail would form the youthful imagination of his protege, the cranky, overbearing genius who remains the outstanding American architect of the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright...
...technology that brought digitized dinosaurs to life in Jurassic Park has not advanced considerably, Spielberg notes, "but the artistry of the creative computer people has--they graduated from freshmen to the senior class by making movies like Casper and Jumanji. There's better detail, much better lighting, better muscle tone and movement in the animals. When a dinosaur transfers weight from his left side to his right, the whole movement of fat and sinew is smoother, more physiologically correct." Adds Industrial Light & Magic computer-graphics ace Dennis Muren: "We built the instrument for the first movie; on this...
...publisher desperate to protect a $4.2 million investment--that the big newsbreak that will be trumpeted out of Without a Doubt (Viking; $25.95), Marcia Clark's long-awaited memoir of the O.J. Simpson trial, is that the former prosecutor was raped at the age of 17. This highly personal detail, which can be found on four pages in the middle of the nearly 500-page volume, is sure to surface during the tearful interview with Barbara Walters, bob up again with Oprah and then again ad nauseam...
...loudspeaker crackled an urgent plea--"part outcry for help and part call to arms"--for any general surgeon to go to the operating room. With Hansen on the verge of death, Nuland took charge and located the trouble: an aneurysm of the splenetic artery. In chilling but mesmerizing detail, he explains how he slowed, then stopped, the bleeding and excised the damaged artery. Afterward, this veteran of hundreds of operations found himself in a state of near euphoria: "Something within me wanted to sing and shout, to dance carefree and make love, to acclaim my triumph to the heavens...