Word: sketched
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...Even when he tried to pour scorn in a sketch, the malice didn't always take. He drew the Broadway entrepreneur David Merrick, a particular bete noire, as a malevolent Santa Claus, complete with bell, book and candle. Merrick's reaction: he bought the drawing and used it as his Christmas card. Seen today, that sketch has an eerie resemblance to a certain artist's early self-portraits - for this Merrick looks like the younger, saturnine Al Hirschfeld...
...Actors knew that a Hirschfeld sketch granted them immortality - at least for a week. So it was rare, maybe one occasion in a thousand, when a subject would take issue with the artist's elaboration. Allen Funt, the creator and host of "Candid Camera," complained that he was made to look like an ape (orangutan or baboon?) in a Hirschfeld drawing. Al's response: "I had nothing to do with that. That was God's work...
...school students was not aware that he had a colleague in Minneapolis, Minn., with the same concerns. Immigration officials didn't know that a Saudi suspected by the CIA of terrorist ties had applied for a visa. "If you look at the lessons learned from Sept. 11," says Ed Sketch, director of Ford's Learning Network, which uses Autonomy software to categorize and distribute information to all its salaried employees, "this technology is slap-bang in the middle because it sorts the relevant from the irrelevant to keep an organization from drowning in data...
...patient. There’s a Christmas story buried in this column, albeit a warped and disturbing and wholly abstract one—a postmodern sketch that differs a fair amount from Frosty, Rudolph and other, more familiar tales. This one involves lawsuits, a beating and Joseph Heller. And Harvard football...
Woodward’s efforts to sketch Bush’s ideological and personal characteristics lead him to detailed portrayals of key players in his cabinet. Surprisingly, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice emerges as Bush’s most trusted and efficacious adviser. She is a consummate “coordinator” who moderates Bush’s desires and relays them to the rest of the team, who negotiates the concerns of each cabinet member and mediates disputes among them...