No surprise, the book was a clothbound work of art, every bit as meticulously crafted as the car it described.
At any restaurant, I'd shred my paper napkin into smaller and smaller crumbled up bits, then meticulously arrange them into barely legible narratives and shapes, until, with an eye roll and a sigh, Mom would dispose of the minuscule garbage heap with a sweep of the hand. .
Prince churned out hits for artists in multiple genres, sparking and resuscitating careers, meticulously sprinkling bits of himself over the industry like stardust.
While the rest of us ordered food that did not require getting our hands dirty, Grandpa happily cracked away and meticulously worked every bit of meat from the shells.
Stews are meticulously scanned and probed, bits of potential bounce fished out and arranged in a neat trail around the rim of her plate.
The bleak operations room of a set, brilliantly realized by Jim Clayburgh and Jim Findlay, and Jennifer Tipton's meticulously calibrated lighting are every bit as much characters as those played by the actors.
They scoop up bits of soil and rock, moving slowly and meticulously like archaeologists.
"I have a strange relationship to variety," the singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt said recently, as he sat at a West Village cafe meticulously tearing a croissant into little bits.
In the ensuing years he continued to evolve as an artist, moving on to create meticulously painted and tightly cropped luminous bits of landscapes and skies (referred to as "Good Paintings"), which he painted in oil on boards.
In this piece by Brooklyn Street Artist Swoon that has been up for perhaps two years and has sufferred wear, tear, and sprayed out faces, Specter meticulously repairs the visages and adds a bit of fabric.
