Word: sketch
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...Times reprints his pompous sketch of diminished "cosmic distinction" Barro could expect at Columbia. Oops...
...such a way so as to fit the Yanomamo into our notions of the ignorant and primitive (though noble) savage. It goes unmentioned that today's Yanomamo is as likely to be found wearing a T-shirt and jeans as a loincloth. The context of the two-sentence ethnographic sketch is neglected, and we are led to believe that the Yanomamo are both culturally and biologically retarded. Indeed, their brains are so poorly developed that they would not even realize that four ignorant gringos are ever so much worse than three. STANLEY C. WEI '98 March...
Riley then proceeded to sketch out President Clinton's second-term program for bringing national education into the Twenty-first Century...
...sketch of Saint Longinus, also on display, is the only intact surviving model of 22 sketches for the giant marble figure of the centurion who pierced Christ's side, only to then discover His divinity. Longinus is one of four figures planned for the altar niches at the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica. The bronze cast of the of the Countess Matilda (called the "FalkBronze" after its donor) is one of two remainingfigurines that closely resemble the statue of thecountess in the tomb erected in St. Peter'sBasilica under order of Pope Barberini. All theseform part...
McNamara said detectives are "looking back atother incidents, not just the latest crimes, andare working on a global query" of the HUPD systemto identify the suspect. "The criminalinvestigators are working on it," she said, butshe could not confirm that a composite sketch hadbeen drawn...