Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...such a setting, Australians - Sydneysiders in particular - have evolved a natural ethos as pleasure seekers in all areas of life. As the writer David Malouf points out, we don't even think of ourselves as hedonists, because that would be too self-conscious. Australian culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook...
...This, said the president, was essentially about buying another year of so to answer a few nagging questions. Explaining his decision, Clinton cited the most recent unsuccessful NMD test and pointed to continued tensions with Russia over the project, in particular the Russians? unwillingness to renegotiate its 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty with the U.S., which prohibits the creation of any national missile defense program. Whoever takes his place in the White House, Clinton explained, will now have a window of time to evaluate the situation, including any new developments or concessions, before making the critical decision...
...Particular details and feelings and pacing of it that I wanted to get required that much space. And I had never attempted anything like that before so I didn't really know what I was getting into...
...that particular, slower, more thoughtful style pacing...
...wanted it to have a much slower feel. There is a sort of staccato quality to a comic strip that doesn't lend itself necessarily to telling something that's a little more understated. So I had to slow that down and smooth it out a bit for this particular story...