Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dreams. The eggs include dozens of embryos--the first to be unearthed anywhere in the southern hemisphere (and an exponential jump in the existing worldwide inventory of only five specimens). What's more, the beautifully preserved bits and pieces include tiny (about a tenth of an inch long), pencil-shaped teeth and mosaics of precise, miniature, lizard-like scales. Says American Museum paleontologist Luis Chiappe, another of the team's co-leaders: "Finding dinosaur embryos is rare enough. Finding the [soft, perishable] tissue that surrounded those bones is truly spectacular...
...flick of Rick Sayre's keyboard tells you all you need to know about the future of animation. "We start with a pencil and a paintbrush," says Sayre, senior animation scientist for the digital studio Pixar. On his screen is a graceful line-and-pastel drawing of two ants gazing across an underground landscape, an early rendering from the much anticipated film A Bug's Life, which opens this week. "When we recruit artists," Sayre says, "we still look for people with great hands." Then he hits the return key, and up pops the finished shot, lush with color, aglow...
...Kemple says catching and correcting errorsposed an even greater challenge than the timeconstraint. Although Eraseable Bond paper alloweda typist to erase an error with a pencil eraser,the process of fixing typos was nonethelessdifficult...
...spent many hours over the summer sketching the abandoned buildings of the city's past. Many of my memorable conversations came about as I sat alone trying to resurrect Newark in pencil and paper...
...would a pencil-thin mustache affect Ken Starr's appearance...