Word: sketcher
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...wrong hands, a big ensemble like this can be deadly, but Martin is a tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting plotter and a deft and inexhaustible sketcher of personalities--including Tyrion Lannister, a bitter, cynical, high-born dwarf (he's Martin's Falstaff) and Brienne the Beauty, a huge, unmarriageable, monstrously ugly woman who fights in full armor and usually wins. Martin has an astonishing ability to focus on epic sweep and tiny, touching human drama simultaneously. The supernatural plays a role, but only rarely...
...BILL BLASS, 79, fashion designer who introduced the "mix-and-match" concept into the American dress style; in Washington, Connecticut. Blass's clients included Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Nancy Kissinger and Barbara Walters. During his six-decade-long career, Blass went from being a $25-dollar-a-day design sketcher to a couturier with a licensing empire that put his name on everything from bed linen to perfumes and chocolate, and that was worth $50 million when Blass retired from designing in 1999. His label was taken over by Swedish designer Lars Nilsson in 2001. DIED. JOHN GOTTI, 61, Mafia...