Word: thoroughness
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...record industry stuck on the border between the ruins of punk and the chic regions of synthesizer pop, Thriller was a thorough restoration of confidence, a rejuvenation. Its effect on listeners, especially younger ones, was nearer to a revelation. Thriller brought black music back to mainstream radio, from which it had been effectively banished after restrictive "special-format programming" was introduced in the mid-'70s. Listeners could put more carbonation in their pop and cut their heavy-metal diet with a dose of the fleetest soul around. "No doubt about it," says Composer-Arranger Quincy Jones, who produced...
...will remain in effect until a scientific advisory committee to the council can be created and make a thorough study of the issue, a process which could take several months...
...plan of attack well rehearsed and thorough. Leaving a fishing cabin rented under a false name, the group of eight split into three teams; two of them rode in vans loaded with unmarked cardboard cartons while the third left in a 17-ft. outboard motorboat. The van teams entered the huge U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., through different gates and joined forces at the PX parking lot. They stopped briefly at Second Division headquarters, then drove to an on-base junior high school, where hundreds of unsuspecting students were attending classes. The boat team, meanwhile, sneaked undetected onto...
Anyone who proposes radically revamping a 35-year-old institution can expect to stir controversy, and that was exactly what Henry Kissinger did last week. In an article written for TIME, the former Secretary of State called for a thorough reshaping of the 16-member Atlantic Alliance to give the West Europeans more responsibility for their own defense...
...asked for three months to think about the problem-not to draw or design anything; to think." Some architects work from bursts of inspiration sketched on the proverbial back of an envelope. Pei arrives at his designs through the meticulous exercise of logical deduction. He concluded that a thorough revamping of the museum was possible without changing any of the existing architecture. The key: the creation of new space underground, a solution that, in various forms, had been urged before by other architects. Pei's plan calls for an extensive, 750,000-sq.-ft. subterranean level, including a grand...