Word: models
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...some cases, Leibovitz said, her ideas conflicted with the model's. She cited the example of Yoko Ono, who Leibovitz thought could take a "strong" head shot, under hard light, with enlarged details. To Leibovitz's surprise, Ono was dissatisfied with the final product and had to be appeased with a softer portrait...
...addition to her work in theater, Shohet serves as the deputy-secretary-general of the Harvard Model United Nations...
...Keep careful records of your invention and record every step of its inception. Describe and diagram every aspect and modification. It may not be necessary to build a test model, but check with someone at the patent office to see whether one is needed...
...home to tinker again. In 1982 the young nuclear scientist spent his days developing advanced space systems for the Strategic Air Command. At night, while his wife and kids slept upstairs, he used mathematic and scientific formulas to launch his own dreams from the basement. He had built a model of a heat pump that used water instead of unfriendly Freon. Attaching a homemade nozzle to the end of tubing and connecting it to his bathroom sink, he carefully turned on the water. It shot out a stream so powerful that its air currents ruffled the curtains. "Eureka!" Johnson told...
...relative unknowns: the man who invented refrigerated trucks, the woman who developed a machine for hair permanents or the man who patented the automatic traffic signal. Officials from the Patent Office, which reports that only 6% of patent applications come from blacks, hail Johnson as a role model and cite his Super Soaker to capture the imagination of schoolchildren...