Word: inking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become as central to the visual culture of traditional Japan as fresco painting was to Italians. The very size of byōbu-which run to a width of twelve feet and more-was an exacting test of the painter's virtuosity in handling watercolor or sumi ink across large areas; it made the paintings into a kind of environment conducive to meditation and withdrawal. Because they were made for domestic use, the imagery of byōbu is generally secular. But Western categories of what is or is not secular make less sense in the context of Japanese...
...companies have moved into software, data processing, time sharing and facilities management that 42% of 102 companies surveyed in this field lost money even in 1969, according to the Little study. Though figures for last year have not yet been compiled, the recession undoubtedly increased the flow of red ink. By 1975, predicts Little, 20 firms in services and software may well snare the bulk of revenues that are now spread among...
...Better action photography and bigger picture layouts are taking over the space in sports sections once saved for interpretive cartoons. Television's instant replays engrave images on a sports fan's mind that cannot be duplicated with the same drama the next day in brush strokes and ink. Today's sports editors can spare neither column inches nor salary for sports cartoonists-not even for the likes of Willard Mullin...
...atoll in the Indian Ocean known as Diego Garcia, as the London Observer has noted, is "one of those ink specks of the British Empire which were acquired in a fit of absence of mind during the Napoleonic Wars and have rarely been heard of since." More will be heard of it in the future. In 1971 the U.S. will begin to build a joint British-American air and radio communications center on the tiny island. The facility will provide support for British and U.S. planes and ships and will be available as a potential alternative to the U.S. communications...
...century Thameside (in London Bridge Is Falling Down!), he knows as much about the shops and ships, the rigs and ragamuffins as a sharp eye and a keen mind can acquire. The result encourages young (and old) to brood upon details and be delighted by the beauty of black ink and watercolor washes that blend a Delacroix-like delicacy with the liveliness of Thomas Rowlandson. Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four seasons and drawn down to the last mule harness and quayside bollard...