Word: sketched
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...choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...
...given evening, he might sketch changes he wants to make the next day on his Civil War mural or work on his book or review Spanish grammar so he'll be ready for South America or ponder how he is going to compose a concert scene for a recently commissioned mural. "While working on one mural, I make sketches for the next and think about the third," he says. "I'm like a theater stock company that does one play a week, rehearsing next week's play and reading the play for the week after!" For performing his repertory...
...produced an arrest. Police jailed a Swedish man in his 30s on suspicion of "complicity" in the murder. The suspect, who was not named, had been near the scene of the crime when it happened. His lawyer, who admitted that his client bore a "certain resemblance" to a police sketch of the killer, insisted that he was innocent. --By Michael S. Serrill Reported by Julian Isherwood and John Kohan/Stockholm
...passport, on suspicion of attempting to blow up an El Al plane leaving London's Heathrow Airport on April 17, British authorities advised their counterparts in Berlin to arrest another Palestinian named Ahmed Nawaf Mansur Hasi. Inside Hasi's apartment, West German detectives found what appeared to be a sketch of the La Belle discothèque, where an explosion three weeks earlier had killed two people and left 230 wounded. They also discovered that Hasi was Hindawi's brother, that he had visited Libya at least once since moving to Berlin in 1975, and that even though unemployed...
What drove Dave Chappelle from the set of his sketch show is the same thing that makes it distinctive: his intense involvement. A roomful of writers would have eased the load but blunted his voice and disconcerting racial humor. We don't know what will happen to Chappelle, but his comedy won't fade away...