Word: sentineled
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...business of making large iron dolls, and it may be, as various critics have pointed out, that the usual verticality of his sculptures encourages one to read them too readily as effigies of the figure. The same object, horizontal, would not be seen as a recumbent personage or sentinel. But in the end, the body messages of Smith's sculpture do not depend on whether the pieces have "heads" or "legs," as quite a few of them do. They flow from the internal relationships of the forms and from the metaphorical suggestions of tension, flexibility, alertness and so forth...
...Florida is graphically vivid, diligent in pursuit of local news, quick to dispatch reporters on breaking stories and dedicated to muckraking. Says David Burgin, a veteran of the New York Herald-Tribune, Washington Star and three newspaper chains, who was named six weeks ago as editor of the Orlando Sentinel Star: "When you assess the quality at every level, including the weeklies, this is the best newspaper state in the country. Even the bad papers are good...
...last year resulted in the resignation of a state attorney. The Fort Myers News-Press disclosed that a $1 million road plan benefited only the would-be developer of a housing tract; the road project was canceled. In an unusual joint venture, the Herald, St. Petersburg Times and Orlando Sentinel Star are spending $75,000 to computerize records of every contribution of $50 or more to candidates for Congress, the governorship, the legislature and elective state cabinet posts...
...Visit from St. Nicholas" first appeared in the Troy, N.Y., Sentinel in 1823 and was reprinted in magazines and newspapers across the country. A few years later political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew a Santa Claus for Harper's Illustrated Weekly in line with Moore's characterization. The caricature depicting a round, bearded figure with a reermine-trimmed suit, a wide leather belt at shiny boots, cemented Santa Claus's image...
...from now, when a surgeon will be able to slip on a pair of special gloves connected by remote control to a pair of mechanical hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles away. Fighting crime? The Advanced Robotics Corp. is advertising a mechanical sentinel that can speed to the site of any breakin, sternly ask an intruder, "What are you doing here?" and temporarily blind him with its spotlight while its siren calls for help...