This is what a Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign looks like: scrupulously planned, exhausting and, at least in the eyes of some opponents, like a national political operation plunked into a city that, having had the same mayor for more than 20 years, may not quite remember what a competitive race can look like.
Although scrupulously researched, "A Royal Affair" looks at history sentimentally.
"We have all the infrastructure we need," says Paulina Barría, head of Los Pimientos primary school, surveying her modern, cheerful and scrupulously clean school, which looks almost opulent beside the shanty town where most of its pupils live.
"Justice Brennan" is a scrupulously fair book, and readers looking for hagiography will be dismayed by Brennan's views of women (he once declared that were a woman ever nominated to the high court, he might have to resign).
Instead, everything is scrupulously clean but designed to look like it's been rotting away in the dark for years.
She has to do the thing she's scrupulously avoided in 2017's TV debates – make Jez look presidential.
IN HIS scrupulously modest office in Broadcasting House, the vast, art-deco headquarters of the BBC, Tony Hall looks relaxed for a man who has just taken a pair of shears to a national treasure.
We just came to look at sex toys and tits'n'ass!" In 1998, when the late David Foster Wallace wrote "Big Red Son", his scrupulously footnoted 12-page account of the AVN Awards for Premiere magazine, porn was doing bigger business than Hollywood.
Indeed, for women, who have long been taught to search for a mate while scrupulously pretending not to, social historians say online dating may be making it more acceptable to openly signal what they are looking for.
