Details (calligraphy lessons, bullfights). Examples (Zen Buddhism, bombs and terror).
Essays in the recent comparison of Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) and Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) were succinct and shiny.
But too many writers went for the glistening generalities ("magical and unbelievable") and were seriously short on details such as "Guernica," iPhone, "Blue Nude," iTunes, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and iMac.
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