Word: draw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many as 30,000 Japanese draw their living from ivory -- as traders, carvers and merchants. But the import trade is controlled by a few. Two men, Takaichi in Osaka and Kitagawa in Tokyo, have accounted for as much as half the ivory entering Japan in recent years. Kitagawa, 47, is a stern man who presides over an industry in turmoil. He was twelve when he was introduced to what has been his family's business for nearly a century. His showroom, scanned by video cameras and kept moist by humidifiers, features a towering ivory pagoda and cases filled with ornate...
...others are better suited to the task than Johnston. She is no stranger to hard work. Hard work is the key to her success, not the luck of the draw--as she would have you believe...
...that a staged scene of any kind is inappropriate on a news program, which depends for its credibility on presenting the truth and nothing but. On the other side are a new generation of TV news producers, under pressure from network bosses to come up with programs that will draw prime-time-size audiences. Re-enactments, the proponents argue, if carefully used and clearly labeled, can help impart information and expand the kinds of stories TV news...
...with equal curiosity: he is as interested in the way a formidable old nun grips her crucifix -- like a weapon -- as in the way the left hand of his monarch Philip IV rests, lightly but not quite negligently, on the hilt of his sword. There is nothing he cannot draw, though no drawings by Velazquez survive. That, however, is part of his fascination to eyes conditioned by the spontaneity of painting since Manet, for now that Velazquez's paint has aged, one sees the radical shifts and erasures of form below the unperturbed surface. There is no texture he cannot...
...just cannot see from any of the people I know that that was a racist issue," says Crompton. "I think that's a false assumption to draw...