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Word: sketchier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fill with laughter, just as if this were still a play. As a result, some very good performers (Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton) function less as full-scale sorority sisters than as chorus members who elbow their way up front in a crowd of even sketchier characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving: Steel Magnolias | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge and canal in a few electric jottings of bister ink--seems remote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emblems of a Lost Tradition | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...presented in broad strokes: all his sisters suffer failing marriages and are differentiated only by their means of solace: Lucienne drinks and plans an affair. Monique pops mood pills, and Denise relies heavily on the comforts of the refrigerator. The aunts and the father Gabriel (Don Panec) have sketchier difficulties, the stereotyped problems of old age. Gabriel has one additional distinction--he has gone deaf beyond the reach of even the strongest hearing aid, and he dozes in a lonely world, fending off Serge's efforts to reach...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Comme-ci, Comme-ca | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

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