Word: inking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preference questionnaire," completely anonymous, and send it around to all his friends, who would think it was for some sociology thesis, fill it out, and return it to a post office box. Reid would collect the replies and then identify which friend filled out which questionnaire by the ultraviolet ink he had previously coded them with. He never actually did this, of course, but then again neither did I; I had planned to identify the returned questionnaries with inconspicuous pencil dots. I recently talked to a graduate of Lowell House who said that he planned to use slightly torn...
...shoe stores, to sell an Italian men's clothing firm, and is even unloading the 347-unit S.H. Kress variety store chain. He has already shut down three textile plants in Tennessee and North Carolina. Together, these operations accounted for $18 million of the fiscal-1973 red ink. From now on, says Frank the Knife, he intends to "concentrate on improving the company's profits and worry less about sales...
...Happy-Go-Lucky Polka, two representatives of the Richfield American Legion Clown Club do their turns for Bernie's 100-odd invited guests and scores of passersby. Bernie figures the festivities have cost him $400, which he paid out of his purple checkbook (he writes in purple ink...
...long way to climb. On the same day as the Smith appointment, American announced that its losses for the first eight months of the year had risen to a staggering $26.3 million, v. a profit of $12.4 million over the same period in 1972. Financial analysts expect the red ink for all of 1973 to exceed $30 million. The company's underlying problem is that it owns far more wide-bodied jets than it can run at a profit (TIME, July 2)-a dilemma that even Smith's wealth of experience and operating wizardry may be hard pressed...
...first niellist to substitute wet ink for hard paste, to press a sheet of paper onto the metal and so invent the copperplate engraving, seems to have been a Florentine goldsmith named Maso Finiguerra (1426-64). The technique suited its period. It demanded tough, precise outline drawing and responded to absolute clarity of form. Hence it was ideal for a precisionist like Mantegna, whose few engravings are almost mineral in their sharpness. Not even the drapery on his figures was soft; with deep cuts and cracking angles, it might have been carved from obsidian...