Word: longhanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work of Darger's life was a saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. He wrote it in longhand, and then typed it out; the typescript ran to more than 15,000 pages. It is a seemingly endless, repetitious and obsessively detailed narrative of child martyrdom, massacre and Edenic innocence set on an imaginary planet largely populated by moppets...
...Senator claims to have composed the book in longhand, drawing upon journals he kept for years. Aside from a sprightly epigram or three, which read as if they were recycled from speeches, he is scarcely more convincing as a writer than as an orator. Time Present, Time Past is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues. It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers: he has to add a litany of nine, from the Ohio to the Penobscot. Most Angelenos of Mexican heritage, he notes, are laborers--documenting...
...sometimes write out of order," she confesses. She often composes scenes corresponding with the mood she's in. She writes in longhand, turning the copy over to her confidential secretary ("sworn to silence") for a typed first draft. No one but the secretary is allowed to see what she has written until all crimes are committed and fixed in print...
...spiked. There has to be a classier term for what Cassandra Wilson sings. Notes just doesn't cover it. You'd have to say that she sings entire epistles, love letters to the soul; every sound that leaves her lips is filled with paragraphs of emotion, written lovingly in longhand with...
...work. Despite a claim that Hard Copy paid $1,000 for its newsmaking peek last August at a social worker's report on the molestation charge against Jackson, reporter Diane Dimond describes spending three hours in a Santa Monica bar copying every word of the 25-page file in longhand. (She could not legally take away the original, which documented the plaintiff's story.) "I didn't pay one dime on the Jackson story," says Dimond, "and everybody in the world is now following...