That's why the past week's debate about whether there could ever again be a father-figure anchor with Cronkite's everyman looks and sonorous delivery is an escapist parlor game.
Among the standouts are Inez Nathaniel-Walker's drawings of buoyant ballooning figures anchored by an airy assortment of patterns and textures, which particularize garments, surroundings, hair and race.
Sometimes you need to sit back and wait for someone else to make the first offer, other times it's best to throw out a figure to anchor the range.
The notion of a brief, recurring melodic figure to anchor a composition and seduce the listener goes back to classical music – where it was more commonly referred to as an ostinato.
The series, like many independent ventures, doesn't rely on names to propel it forward though Keough is in fact the granddaughter of the legendary Elvis Presley, there are few other recognizable figures to anchor the show and entice viewers, aside from Boardwalk Empire's Paul Sparks, who plays Christine's cagey boss at the law firm.
For each of these labels, ratings were made using a single, computerized visual analog scale (VAS, see Figure S1), anchored at "other skin" and "own skin," with the mid-point representing no felt difference between the two.
If British relay blunders have become expected, so too have Jamaican wins and Usain Bolt took his world championships career medal tally into double figures by anchoring Jamaica to gold.
The stockless anchor (Figure 2), which was patented in England in 1821, came into wide use principally because of its ease of handling and stowing.
For completeness, the relative coordinates are mapped onto the reference coordinate shown in Figure 8. Three anchor points are chosen arbitrarily (nodes 1, 2, and 3) and the coordinate transformation matrix involving a 3-axes trandlation and a 3-axes rotation is derived using Nelder-Mead minimization [48].
He was the anchor figure in Beyond Our Ken, which also featured Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
