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...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...
...this spirit, I welcomed Schlesinger's letter, but regret that the accompanying sketch may have misled readers. The planning committee has not yet recommended an architect for this project, much less chosen a specific site or design, so any representations of it would be purely conjectural. Preliminary studies have all proposed a building of 45,000 to 60,000 square feet, with additional space below grade connecting the new building to Coolidge Hall. The sketch, to my admittedly untrained eye, grossly exceeds the scale of the building represented in these studies, and implies that a location has already been determined...
Printing each issue involved a complicated and laborious process of making a rough sketch of the layout, running the stories through a machine that coated one side of the article with wax, arranging the articles on a dummy sheet and then photographing the page with a giant camera...
...story is all there, a clear-eyed sketch of lower-middle-class Irish-American life, in a dozen paragraphs of bar conversation. "He had the sweetest nature," says a cousin. "He found a way to like everyone, he really did...He could always get you laughing." Another voice: "God, wasn't he funny?" The author interpolates: "Not missing the irony of the drinks in their hands and the drink that had killed him, but redeeming, perhaps, the pleasure of a drink or two, on a sad, wet afternoon, in the company of old friends, from the miserable thing that...