Word: easel
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...though never in his wife's courtroom). Smith says he has seen case after case in which people are willing to whittle away at their inheritance in order to try to win a fight over heirlooms. "When I mediate these estate cases, I draw a big circle on an easel for them. Then I tell them, 'You're playing with your own chips here. Your parents probably didn't intend for your lawyers to be the single largest beneficiary of their estate...
...arwi, an Incan weaving technique revived by his grandfather Ambrosio in the 1920s and only uses hand-spun wool and native Andean dyes. With this technique, Sulca weaves together modern and ancient symbols. Some are easy to decipher: notes on a staff to represent music, for instance, and an easel signifies art in “Gracias a la Vida...
...earthly life. And then, particularly, there was Chardin, the 18th century French master of still life, whose benign and composed presence is palpable in Manets like the Bunch of Asparagus, 1880, with its almost miraculous rendering of the blue tips of the asparagus spears. (It sold, fresh off the easel, to a collector named Charles Ephrussi. Manet felt he had been paid too generously, and with his usual wit he sent Ephrussi a tiny painting of a single asparagus spear, with a note: "This one was missing from your bunch...
...serving and dining areas, appearance and taste of food and the the availability of food. The students presented complaints to McGahey and Quincy House Dining Hall Manager Mark Petrino as Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications Alix McNitt took 16 and a half pages of notes on a giant easel...
...more votes than his opponent, yet this was coming down to hundreds of votes in Florida," Reid says. For all the talk about how Gore is binging on data and calling the shots from his battle station in the vice-presidential residence--a dining room equipped with his big easel for scrawling ideas and his two sets of laptops and phones--Gore also has time to think about what might have been. If he had carried his home state, Florida wouldn't matter. If his get-out-the-vote people in Duval County hadn't given faulty ballot instructions...