Word: grid
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Through the 1870s, Pissarro's surfaces would become more agitated, broken and silky. In one of his small masterpieces, The Climbing Path, L'Hermitage, Pontoise, 1875, he gave a view of roofs through a dappled grid of tree trunks the sort of beautiful abstruseness one associates with Cézanne. But always there remained an Arcadian sense of order-a confidence in reasonable appetite, one of whose physical manifestations was the fruitful, vaporous and lovingly cultivated landscape of the Seine-et-Oise...
More cooperation between countries will ensue from the elimination of 150 nationalistic sovereign states. His plans include an electric energy network grid extending across the world, making energy consumption more efficient, recycling resources, and using lighter alloys. He also seeks to eliminate worthless occupations--such as insurance agencies--because these services should be provided outside the market...
...focus in the distance from the eyeball to the tip of the nose, or from the edge of a Up to the lobe of the ear. Then he made color separations of the image and scaled it up to the giant canvas by means of a finely ruled grid. After that the image was transferred, square by square...
...applications of this system vary a good deal. Sometimes the grid of Close's preliminary studies is large in relation to the scale of the image; it turns into big programmed dots that define the face tonally, without giving much information about it at all. "On that scale," Close points out, "a dot just can't be specific, it can't stand for individual hairs, it has to be very general." In the largest studies, the face may almost vanish in the welter of information, becoming ungraspable, as the original photograph never was. In between there...
...Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...