Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every detail of Close's character is perfect. Crammed into an array of fantastic furs she sports the stylish half black/half white De Vil hair-do. Even her long red gloves have press-on nails. De Vil is constantly armed with a long cigarette, and she drops her ashes on the feet of any subservient fool she meets...
...minutes were now officially under way, and I quickly realized that I had overlooked one crucial detail--I still had no idea where Widener kept its books. I ran in circles panicking until a friend advised me to ask the man at the information desk where they were. The plan was so crazy it just might work. I followed the man's directions: made a right and opened the door that said "book return" (The reader may note a point of irony: I had not yet seen any books, but I now knew where to return them). I then proceeded...
Nonetheless, the 31-page FBI affidavit and subsequent indictment detail a series of sizable but unexplained payments to Nicholson's various bank accounts, $180,000 in all. That money, more than double his $73,000 salary, started to arrive just as Nicholson's financial circumstances were getting tighter. During the years he was posted abroad with diplomatic cover, a large house, car and private schools for his three children went with the job. When he was moved back to the U.S. in 1994, the expatriate good life disappeared. That same year he divorced his wife and won custody...
When Richard Brooks' In Cold Blood, the film based on Truman Capote's celebrated nonfiction novel, was released in 1967, a number of critics complained that it lacked a point of view. Unable to capture the real merit of the book--Capote's masterly accretion of detail in telling the true story of a prosperous Kansas farm family's gruesome murder--the film meanders about, touching on unoriginal themes: that men can kill with no good reason, that boys brutalized will grow up to brutalize, that the pure of heart often die in vain...
...Pooley. "With Rick and Eric, you know you're going to get the story behind the story," says senior editor Priscilla Painton, who along with assistant managing editor Steve Koepp oversaw our election-issue package. "Eric burrows into a story and doesn't come back until he has every detail. Rick never loses sight of the big picture...