Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that were cut around Cabot's trees, some that fit snugly into the terraced corners of Whitman Hall and others that were free-standing. These tables are places to linger over a meal outside and listen to Hannah's sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball into the cupola on top of Briggs Hall...
Hired in 1977 as the company's first staff artist, Miyamoto designed the popular Donkey Kong game four years later by combining themes from two of his favorite stories, King Kong and Beauty and the Beast. In 1985 he turned a sketch of a pint-size workman in a cap and droopy mustache into Mario the Plumber, the world's best-selling video-game character (total worldwide sales of Mario games in all formats: $5.85 billion...
...added that officers searched the premises but were unable to find traces of the intruder. Detectives later returned to the house to make a composite sketch, but West's wife had not seen the man well enough to provide...
...Peoples Against Hootie & the Blowfish. This week the New York Times dismissed Rucker as rock's "reigning crybaby," a reference to his emotive lyrics. Some of the criticism cuts deeper. A writer for the Village Voice compared the band to a minstrel show, and Saturday Night Live did a sketch where Rucker leads beer-swilling white frat boys in a countermarch to Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March (apparently, to the mostly white staff at SNL, successful blacks must be sellouts...
...guess about what that part of the puzzle might be about and then modestly decline overspeculation about the pieces that don't fit." Instead, "these solvers ... throw away the central piece ... and then bring in pieces from other puzzles [i.e., apocryphal manuscripts]. Finally, they take this jumble of pieces, sketch an outline of what the [whole thing] ought to look like on the basis of some universal puzzle pattern, and proceed to reshape the pieces until they fit the pattern." Inevitably, he writes, that pre-determined pattern is dictated by the puzzlers' sociological or political prejudices...