Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economical acronyms for the weaponry and technogadgetry with which he is so obsessed, Clancy cannot seem to turn in a novel that weighs less than a laptop. At 4 lbs. and 874 pages, his ninth, Executive Orders (Putnam; $27.95), is another doozy of laborious plot, bombastic jingoism and tedious detail. This time out, Clancy hero Jack Ryan, former CIA director, National Security Adviser, investment banker and maritime historian, gets the only job left to him that doesn't involve manning a cash register at Denny's: President of the United States...
...lite, magnanimous in tone, full of specific policy prescriptions and as Republican as they can get away with. Opening night will feature only ordinary citizens, including a redemptive speech by Christopher Reeve, and even some Republicans touched by issues like gun control and welfare. Later Hillary Rodham Clinton will detail ways to help children, and Tipper Gore will address cultural and social values. The President's speech will be modeled on a State of the Union address, with at least 30 new proposals. The goal, said an adviser, "is to show how we already are and will continue to implement...
...this forward motion comes naturally to Reeve, whose task-oriented and detail-oriented nature was heretofore applied to such activities as flying, sailing, scuba diving and horseback riding as well as working for such causes as the environment, children's issues, human rights and the National Endowment for the Arts. His success as an actor was a result of concentration and diligence as much as good looks. "I'm not a naturally gifted actor," he says. "Acting was a long process for me." He adds, "I was just getting the hang...
...Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (Yale University Press) and an authorized life, Damned to Fame, by Beckett scholar James Knowlson (due in October from Simon & Schuster). Knowlson's book is reverent, exhaustive--3,361 footnotes!--and full of fine detail on Beckett's dogged, monastic creativity. If anyone could know this private man, Knowlson does. And tells...
...with computers that factor in radar records, wind direction and speed, and other data. The studies will help experts determine the sequence of catastrophic events that led to the plane's destruction. Also, the sharp sound at the end of the cockpit voice recording is being analyzed in minuscule detail, with attention to the different speeds at which the vibrations travel through air and metal. If the gap between the sound's arriving by air and by metal is small, that means the event was close to the cockpit because the vibrations did not have time to gain a large...