Word: visual
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...presidential praise was the final acceptance by the U.S. Department of Transportation of the transportation- related symbols and pictograms that were refined and adapted by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. More than 50 signs are now being introduced along streets, at airports and at other facilities. They include visual commands for no parking and no smoking, as well as symbols for fire extinguisher and escalator...
Ginsberg: Content is visual because you see pictures. According to one of Kerouac's quotes in an essay called "The Essentials of Modern Prose": "don't stop to think of the words but to see the picture better." The sound is something I here in my ear. There are no rules to that, you've just got to like the sound of the words. I wrote a poem in China called "China Bronchitis." Immediately the title sounded funny because of the sounds. It has sort of a bee-boop sound, and the "a" sound in "China" goes together with...
...square feet or more than five employees in a 24-hour period must apply for a special city permit. Obtaining the permit requires appearing before a hearing of the Board of Zoning Appeals and community groups as well as satisfying guidelines including the upkeep of the physical and visual character of the area, according to Fester W. Barber, a Cambridge planning official...
Russel advocated granting the special permit to the Porter Square MacDonalds in part because fast-food places, especially McDonalds, have changed over the past decade, he said. "They now realize they don't need the same, totally incongruous visual presence in order to sell their hamburgers...
...ratifying his presence between hard covers. His $160,000 contract with Harper calls for five more volumes: journals, future poetry, essays and interviews, and letters. There is also a biography of him in the works and a documentary funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Ginsberg's own visual contributions are 30 years' worth of snapshots of his literary friends. A selection, including the faces of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky, was recently on display in a Manhattan gallery...