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Keep in mind too that for some time one of the key words in design has been palimpsest. It originally referred to a manuscript or parchment that has been written on more than once, so that the earlier writing has been scraped away but still sometimes remains faintly visible. Translated into design terms, palimpsest stands for the idea that, given a chance, the history of a place can and will rise from its grave. It's the notion, for instance, behind a persistent argument in Berlin, where architects, city planners and ordinary citizens periodically squabble over how much...
Before The Wall Street Journal's relaunch last week - the new version is dramatically narrower and creates several new departments - the paper's publisher, L. Gordon Crovitz, cleverly deflected any anticipated criticism, telling Editor & Publisher that he's "girded for the letters of complaints written with quills on parchment." In other words, if you don't like it, you just...
...longer hip person and - and putting all my chips on the table here - an ex-Wall Street Journal reporter, I am plucking my quill, or dipping it, or whatever we did to adorn parchment back in the day. And declaring: the new Journal actually was pretty good in its debut last week. (More than anything, though, I'm glad the relaunch is over and done with. As much as I admire Gordon, I feel as if I've seen his bespectacled dot-drawn likeness an awful lot in recent weeks in the publisher's columns, telling me, the reader...
...free plastic wrap and never let it directly contact food. In fact, you may want to avoid using plastic wrap - try waxed or parchment paper instead...
...Although Meredith's transfer request was not granted the first time around, her son got into her school of choice as a second-grader. Regardless of where Meredith's son ended up, Gordon wrapped up his argument with a description of the Equal Protection Clause. "That's on neutral parchment with black ink," he said. "There's no percents. There's no box to check...