Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were slaughtered in a Siberian hovel that their graceful life has such enduring appeal. Nicholas and Alexandra were shutterbugs themselves and kept scrapbooks that record the growth of their pretty children and the family's annual progress through palaces and yachts. The heart of the book is its eloquent detail. The tsarevich's little drum, the tsarina's snowy parasols have the impact of domestic artifacts found in a mummy's tomb, bringing a remote past shockingly alive...
...letters to many of the lobbyists the bill is supposed to rein in. Even in a city inured to the crass trading of favors for campaign cash, the Barbour letter, signed simply "Haley," is extraordinarily blatant. It opens, "Let me get right to the point," and lays out in detail the special access money can buy, ranging from photographs with the Republican presidential contenders to cocktails in a private skybox at the G.O.P. convention in San Diego next August. The more contributors give--$15,000, $45,000, $150,000 or $250,000--the more they get in return...
...mostly a Republican affliction? Seven prominent politicians, including five Democrats and two Independents, have been secretly plotting an independent run for the White House, some of the participants have told Time. In a prearranged conference call on two Sunday mornings since late October, the schemers have talked in detail about the need for a third voice to challenge the two-party system. Next Sunday, in their most important call yet, they hope to decide whether any of them will seize the moment...
Then, starting in the late 1960s, three paleontologists - Harry Whittington of the University of Cambridge in England and his two students, Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris - embarked on a methodical re-examination of the Burgess Shale fossils. Under bright lights and powerful microscopes, they coaxed fine-grain anatomical detail from the shale's stony secrets: the remains of small but substantial animals that were overtaken by a roaring underwater mudslide 515 million years ago and swept into water so deep and oxygen-free that the bacteria that should have decayed their tissues couldn't survive. Preserved were not just...
...finger-twisting show-stopper like Leopold Godowsky's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Johann Strauss II's "Artist's Life," or kiddin' on the keys with Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm, or digging into one of the late Beethoven sonatas, Wild brings the same impeccable attention to structure and detail. "I spend a lot of time with these pieces," he says, "because if you don't know them thoroughly, you're just struggling like crazy to play the notes. But when you hear middle voices and the other details--when you have the tones in your head--it makes it much...