Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pencil over her face and becomes similar in style to her characters that her self-portrait begins. Until then, she has taken advantage of a trick called "rotoscoping", a painstaking process which involves tracing the projection of live-action footage, frame by frame, onto paper laid over frosted glass. The result is a strange breed of fantasy and reality, true proportions with great fluidity--trained nonchalance, like an architect's handwriting. It is a common technique and can be discerned in this weekend's Animation for Live Action, by Vera Neubauer, as well...
Back in 1973, we initiated a very small program in one of the assembly plants in GM, where, in the glass installation area, scrap was at a horrible rate, and repairs were at an impossible rate. Half the people in that particular area--only about 30 people as I recall--had suffered some kind of disciplinary measure against them by management in the previous six months; absenteeism was very high, labor turnover was bad. We asked the workers whether they would volunteer to undertake a program. We said, 'Obviously, what's happening here is no damn good.' Fortunately, practically...
...years ago, President Jimmy Carter raised a glass of champagne in a toast to his first state visitor at the White House, President Jose López Portillo of Mexico. Said Carter: "The proximity to the United States, I hope, will become a blessing and not a curse...
...later, his endurance sapped, Stockdale realized that if his interrogation continued, he would probably give up secrets. He finally employed a lesson he had learned from Thomas Schelling's 1960 The Strategy of Conflict, a work he had come across at Stanford. He stabbed his wrists with broken glass, producing pools of blood that horrified his guards and made them end their interrogations. "I felt the only way I could really deter and stop the flow of questioning was to show a commitment to death," remembers Stockdale. "I don't think that I intended...
Much less spectacular, but perhaps more deadly, than Fleming's spectacular turn-around jumpers and off-the-glass rejections, were Crimson co-captain Glenn Fine's ten assists...