Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other day, a deaf man was plying his trade on the 10 p.m. outbound train, selling miniature screwdrivers with the tags "Please support the deaf with a dollar donation" attached to them. The tag concluded with a disarmingly friendly sketch of the sign language symbol for smile and then a smiley face. The man walked haltingly up and down the train, placing a tool set on each empty seat, but each passenger pretended not to see him or unintentionally flinched as he came near. One would have thought the man contagious--and not merely deaf...
...four volumes showing 497 species, life-size and engraved in full color on the largest sheets of paper then available, he would shoot each bird and wire up its corpse on a board in an attitude that seemed both aesthetically pleasing and full of information: the bird became a sketch for its own monument...
...restrict students' choices in ways that have little intellectual justification. The present guidelines for Core courses were an answer to the question posed by the 1947 Task Force on the Core Curriculum: "What intellectual skills, what distinctive ways of thinking, are identifiable and important?" In the following paragraphs I sketch a different answer to the same question and examine some of its practical implications...
...White's forest for its nostalgia and tie-in tomes--not just the inevitable The Art of Hercules, due any day now, but fond, if incestuous, tributes to the anonymous heroes who toiled on Disney cartoons. Canemaker's Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists is a sumptuous introduction to the craftsfolk whose paintings suggested a mood and design for Disney directors. Hyperion has also begun a sketchbook series of drawings from its early works; the first is a beguiling Bambi. In concert these volumes illuminate the unseen artistry that helps create movie magic...
...arrested him. Using the vehicle-identification number on the Ryder truck's axle, which survived the blast, the FBI learned from Ryder which location the truck had been rented from. Descriptions of McVeigh by two people at the rental office were the basis of a sketch that agents showed to motel desk clerks in the area. The owner of the Dreamland recognized McVeigh and gave his name. Federal agents ran it through a national-crime database and discovered that McVeigh was in jail in Perry. Just before he was about to be released, the FBI called and had him held...