Sentences with phrase «over typewriters»

Immersed at a depth of 8 meters in Grenada, a man sits at his desk, his hands hovering over the typewriter, poised in eternal deliberation.

In the same way that you can't offer professional advice to friends or family, because it's not worthwhile if they didn't pay for it from a strange professional, even many reader friends will be unimpressed or actually hostile toward your books — perhaps because it breaks their idea of authors being strange, artistic, ethereal beings hunched over a typewriter in a stone tower or something, I du n no.

As Stephen King confirms in his primer, On Writing: «There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy dust all over your typewriter (quaint!)

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To glance back over 26 years» worth of Discover ads is to glimpse a lost world of electric typewriters, Polaroid cameras, Atari video games, and smokers, smokers galore.

Their lead technician, Ken, relates how he has fallen in love with typewriters and their intricacies over his years repairing, sourcing and sale of them with the owner, Herb.

Brainstorm with your students how the forms of written communication have changed over the years: from writing on stones, feather pens and ink bottles, the Pony Express, typewriters, computers, email, and text messages.

Unless you've been living in a rural cabin, pounding away on a manual typewriter, you know that technology and social media have been rapidly evolving over the past five years.

So anytime something interesting would happen, I'd write 25 or so one - page - aerogram versions of it over the next few days, all on a clunky, museum - piece manual typewriter.

- includes elements from the movies, spin - off shows and comics - over 100 new characters in addition to returning heroes and villains from the last Lego Marvel game - hubs include Barton farm from Age of Ultron - play the climactic Battle for New York - Hulk can now charge up his jump - Hawkeye now has more trick arrows - each character portrait now includes a meter on the rim - executing a finishing move on an enemy takes up about one - third of your power - once filled, you can trigger a team - up move that wipes out many of the enemies in the vicinity - each duo has two different moves, depending on who triggered - when playing as Iron Man, switching up suits pulls players into the suit - each armor set has a different animation - the Mark I calls in Stan Lee to weld it on - the Mark V entombis Tony from its portable briefcase storage - Stanbuster suit includes a typewriter, lamp, and pencil cannon

Tire - tread mark (front wheel) and tire - tread mark with house paint (rear wheel) made by Cage's Model A Ford, driven by Cage over twenty sheets of typewriter paper fastened together with library paste, mounted on fabric, 16 1/2 in.

Instead of traditional drawing tools Allyson Strafella (b. 1969) has been working with typewriters, standard and custom built, for over two decades.

Dalwood's human subjects never themselves appear, though their presence and absence is signalled in all kinds of sidelong ways — a pair of slippers and a hookah on a step, a typewriter on a table in Burroughs's room, the wobbly moon hanging over the hill where Kelly died.

Back in New York in 1953, Sari Dienes takes direct ink traces from a Soho sidewalk, while Robert Rauschenberg has John Cage drive a Model A Ford over twenty sheets of typewriter paper to leave its tread.

Famed minimalist and art critic Donald Judd amassed a tomb of writing over his life, but never used a typewriter.

Dom Sylvester Houédard, (or dsh, as he was known), was a contradictory and elusive figure whose work has been assiduously collected over the years by aficionados of Concrete Poetry and typewriter art.

ALLYSON STRAFELLA: FIELD May 18 - Jul 7, 2018 Private view Thu May 17 6 pm - 8 pm Instead of traditional drawing tools Allyson Strafella (b. 1969) has been working with typewriters, standard and custom built, for over two decades.

She also created «Back Yard» (1995 - 99), a 600 square - foot environment that includes a glistening picnic table, checkered table cloth, flowers, lawnmower, clothesline, and barbecue all setting on a blazing lawn of over a million green glass beads; and «Trailer» (2001), a 1949 Airstream with an interior of beaded guns, hunting books and decor, cheap western paintings, a typewriter, a cluttered, messy kitchen, and finally, a glimpse of a leg lying suspiciously still on the bedroom floor next to a handgun.

Kendall Gray over at The Appellate Record has had some fun recently reformatting a Supreme Court of Texas opinion in an attempt to apply modern typographical practices to a product that still owes its shape to the typewriter.

There's (1) the Beats Audio control panel, (2) switching to an annoying (but still easily - disabled) typewriter - derived set of sounds for the keyboard, (3) a default background image of a hot air balloon over a body of water in front of a setting sun with lens flare (oh, the poor Photoshopping at work here), and (4), well, that's it.

• Hands - on experience in booking meetings and coordinating schedules, along with making travel arrangements in accordance to provided instructions • Highly effective in efficiently responding to customers» requests and queries over the telephone and in person • Proficient in operating office machineries such as photocopiers, scanners and voice mail systems • Demonstrated expertise in computing, recording and proofreading data such as records and reports to assist executives with their work • Well - versed in maintaining and updating filing, inventory and database systems, both manually and by using technology • Proven ability to review files and records to obtain information, aimed at responding to requests in a profound manner • Adept at processing and preparing documents, including business expense reports and government forms • Excellent skills in typing, formatting and proofreading notes and reports, by making effective use of computers and typewriters • Exceptional communication skills aimed at creating and maintaining effective liaison between departments to ensure smooth flow of operations • Documented success in efficiently and effectively creating and processing documents and spreadsheets and inputting data in predefined company database systems

From handwriting to typewriters, to the most advanced document creation solutions, there is no doubt that technology has changed over the years.

To your point of a typed envelope is why a Typewriter Font is used a lot over a standard font.

The typewriter disappeared over the years, but my dad recently bought me an old typewriter at a garage sale.