Word: cone
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PBHA Financial Administrator Barbara Cone said matters have been further complicated by the fact that the foundations on which their summer programs have traditionally relied for major funding proved less generous this year than they have been in the past...
...Cone said that their own tight financial situation had not let them simply hire more staffers to deal with a heavier camper load...
...What's particularly clever about "Eros" is the way Herpich uses the forms contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else...
...have worked either, and, of course, the famous ornithopters, helicopters and gliders that made him, in the eyes of an earlier generation, a sort of quattrocento Orville Wright never moved an inch into the air. Probably not even the crank-propelled tanks that he hoped would creep like lethal cone snails across the battlefields of northern Italy would have harmed anyone, even assuming that their sweating and straining occupants could have got their wheels to go round at all, which is beyond probability...
...Samsung was already turning out some cool products. But nobody had noticed. Its brand image was fuzzy and inconsistent from market to market. One reason was that it employed a gaggle of 55 ad agencies. Kim consolidated that work in a single shop, assigning Madison Avenue's Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide to coordinate Samsung's global marketing...