Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detail of resistance is too small for China's hard-line leadership to crush these days, despite the lifting of martial law in Beijing last January. The campaign of repression that followed the June Tiananmen massacre continues unabated, as authorities attempt to roll back all vestiges of "bourgeois liberalization...
...matter and the difference between types of gigantic underground colliders, the huge machines in which subatomic particles are accelerated to fantastic speeds. "Each assignment has its own challenge," says Lertola. "The image has to get an idea across in a % clever way. This time the devil was in the detail: colors, shapes and contrasts...
...Lynchian touches of off-kilter characters and sideshow weirdness. A woman with an eyepatch has an obsession with drapes. Visitors to a bank vault find a stuffed deer head lying on the table. "It fell down," notes a bank officer blandly. The boyish FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) dictates every detail of his day into a cassette recorder and gets misty-eyed over Douglas firs and snowshoe rabbits. "Know why I'm whittling?" he says to the sheriff at one point. "Because that's what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down, not speed...
...From the outside it may seem that things go more slowly," Maher says, but adds that the careful consideration and attention to detail provided to Spence by the advisory board "is worth the time...
After more than a day of heated negotiations, the transport plane headed back for Cuba, its cargo intact; Castro's security detail was left with only handguns...