sketch
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Directed by Tristan Cook and opening in New York this weekend, the film breaks up its tour footage with the history of the quartet and briefly sketched portraits of its players.
The architect’s mischievous side comes through in countless sketches for his famous gargoyles, which achieve “both anatomical coherence and a sense of demonic vitality.”
It’s a pleasure to sit with Amy Tan as she sketches and watches her way to an obsession about the birds in her Marin County backyard.
From Los Angeles Times
The site’s imagery—replete with barrel curls, pink cowboy boots and milkmaid dresses—sketches an ideal of a modern conservative woman: a churchgoing, city-dwelling young mother who is employed and upwardly mobile.
The pronouncement was a dramatic contrast to Jackson’s 1984 hosting gig on “Saturday Night Live” and his memorable reading of “Green Eggs and Ham” during a 1991 appearance on the sketch variety series.
From Los Angeles Times
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