Word: thumbnailing
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...into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...
...miss the mark now and then. Siegfried's essays on American economics seem obvious or dated; his discourses on politics are marred by errors of a sort that never appeared in America Comes of Age. Yet, minor inaccuracies notwithstanding, he can hit off a brisk two-page thumbnail of F.D.R. with a degree of objectivity difficult for an American to attain. France's No. 1 living authority on the U.S. has written the sort of Socratic book about America that, he would argue, America itself cannot easily produce...
Patterson's conclusion: "This then is a thumbnail sketch of our program for 1955, a program directed mainly toward spreading information throughout the world, toward developing technical know-how in all countries, and toward creating the first ties between ourselves and other countries, which will lead to broader cooperation as their programs build...
...tolerated, the Communist conspiracy in the United States." It also included something that is almost certain to explode into bitter controversy: a list of twelve security cases (unnamed and listed only as Employee A, Employee B, etc.) taken from Government loyalty files. Nixon's speech included a thumbnail sketch of each employee, added: "Every one of them has been fired...
Above them all stood a tall, blond young man in a double-breasted tan gabardine suit. His handsome, strong-jawed face was drawn and his blue eyes glittered; for a few seconds he gnawed nervously on a thumbnail, and bright sweat covered his high forehead. He was speaking softly, but with an urgency that seemed to tense every muscle of his body...