Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after huddling with fellow Correspondent John Berry, another energy expert, he wired his findings to Associate Editor David Tinnin, who wrote the cover story. Though Schlesinger and his staffers are still hard at work on final details, the result of Sider's probings is, we think, the most thorough preview yet of a program that will affect every American-and indeed the very future...
...Thorough documentation of Arabic sources and frequent quotations from the political broadsheets of each organization has enhanced Ismael's effort to communicate the shades of tone and policy among and within diverse organs of the Left. In addition, the Appendices--translations of the Ba'ath Constitution and excerpts from manifestos of other groups--are useful source material, much of it never before available in English. Ismael's book is thus both a solid source guide to the development of certain leftist political organizations in the Arab world and a concise, not too formidable, introduction to a confusing subject...
...composed in 1842, is to hear much that followed in the work of Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, the young Stravinsky, even the Prokofiev of Love for Three Oranges. Russlan is a delicious fairy tale scored with lightness and quick invention. The orchestration confirms accounts of Glinka's thorough knowledge of Mozart and Rossini. His inclusion of Russian folk music, Turkish airs, even the whole-tone scale from the Orient (more than half a century before Debussy) suggests that he was exceptionally curious and open-minded...
...Conservation department performs two types of restoration: structural and aesthetic. Structural restoration involves a thorough overhaul of a piece of artwork in a seriously decayed state, while aesthetic restoration generally involves only minor facelifts to improve the appearance and beauty of the object...
THAT DEGAS WAS ABLE to carry off these humorous effects, often with a mere distortion of gesture or a slight exaggeration of a body type not yet fully suited to the fluid presence of a ballerina, rests entirely on his long study and thorough mastery of the possibilities inherent in the subjects to which he devoted himself. In the period that spawned his most successful and intellectually challenging work, he spent years on end in the practicing rooms where the ballet "rats" (girls, often from the slums of Paris, who devoted their young lives entirely to dance) limbered...