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...other side of the living room, blinking with lights and hung with shiny ornaments. You don't see the colored lights strung outside along the eaves--a task my father cheerfully took on every year. You don't see that on the hearth, a glass of milk and a plate of cookies have been set out for Santa...
...editors who had retired in December. An unfavorable comparison to their organizational skill was a much needed wake up call. We were still slow sometimes, but we felt considerably worse about it. So it was no surprise to discover this week that both George D. Dioguardi, the plate maker, and Byrne have daughters who are close to college-age. This explains the comforting mixture of paternal concern and disappointment in us that we can sense from them every time we get our pages in late, hastily mumbling totally ridiculous and implausible excuses. One of the lucky things about finishing...
...plates are loaded on the press and Byrne explains the process by which the ink gets transferred from the plate to the paper. He explained it much much more clearly than is possible to replicate here, but essentially alkaline solution mixed with water is run over the aluminum plates imprinted with the negative image from the film. The image on the plate, covered in the finisher chemicals, repels the alkaline and the alkaline repels the ink. The ink only sticks where there is no image. Since it’s printed as a negative this all begins to make sense...
...planning of Allston is on [Spiegelman’s] plate. Our people get involved in the institution and managing of the Allston project, but not the planning. We do manage all the property already purchased in Allston,” Gray said...
...talked to a professor I had last semester, but she declined. She wasn’t against the idea of it, she just had too much on her plate,” Otner said...