Word: minutia
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...disturbing these changes might be, they are better suited to either a couple of cogent "On Baseball" columns, or through the broader treatment of all twenty six teams. Gammons appears to sense the limitations of his discussion and buttresses his ideas with a glut of observations, quotations, and baseball minutia gleaned from his years covering the Red Sox. The profiles of Sox players and accounts of management parsimony are interesting, but they often diverge from one another failing to render any brand of incisive argument. This is not impressionistic so much as it is egregiously diffuse...
...Ollie IV happy, and as this fairy story for depressives ends in December 1976, he is as miserable as ever, working hard, jogging along the Charles and still mourning over Jenny. The lover of decent prose is equally miserable. Only Erich Segal is happy-$1.5 million richer for this minutia, soon to be made into a minor motion picture...
...hurt that women have borne may have immeasurable meaning. We women are the meeting place of the highest and the lowest, and of minutia and riches; it is for us to see, and understand and have pride in representing ourselves truly. Perhaps we must say to man...'The time may have come for us to forge our own identity, dangerous as that will...
...somber straight man, Dunlop slouches in his chair, scowls disdainfully in the direction of his ever diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last Fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they saw him stick out his tongue at the President...
...next to him Dunlop slouches in his chair, scowls disdainfully in the direction of his ever diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they detected him stick out his tongue at the President...