Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...during that summer, Borowitz says he felt his creativity as a writer was being stifled in Hollywood, and he looked to start a new career in which he could communicate more directly with his reader, rather than “producing a blueprint for the actors” and, “working as a hired...
...professor at the faculty meeting said that the Murray’s description of the functions of the global monitoring project were similar to the blueprint sketched out in his journal article...
...doll or a T shirt.) Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind sold a million copies in its first seven months. After the movie appeared, Rhett Butler was irreversibly Clark Gable. Scarlett O'Hara was Vivien Leigh. Mitchell's prose withered to the irrelevance of an architect's blueprint after the house is built. Dashiell Hammett created Sam Spade. Humphrey Bogart became Sam Spade. The idea of a character becomes imprisoned in the body of the incarnator, and even the creator cannot liberate the prisoner. The character has acquired features and hair and costume. But something valuable, the subjective suggestiveness...
...best to start thinking about those features when you first sit down to draw up plans for your new dream home. You'll save yourself plenty of cash if you widen the hallway in the blueprint phase rather than after the house has been built. "It costs $6 a door extra to put in a wider, 36-in. door in new construction, but if you remodel, it costs $650 per door," says Susan Mack, a universal-design consultant in Murietta, Calif...
...Despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the Legislative and Executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers' blueprint for the governance of a free people--our Constitution...