Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Second Car Theory Speeds Up Fiat? Or ghost car? A newly released sketch of the Diana crash site suggests there were more than just paparazzi at the scene...
PARIS: Three months after the crash, and the truth is still being slowly pieced together. As the first official sketch of the scene of Princess Diana's car crash is unveiled, the "second car" theory is gaining ground in investigators' eyes ? and a "probable collision zone" between Diana's Mercedes and what police suspect is a Fiat Uno is marked on their map of the fateful scene...