But with it, Mr. Tucker and other conservators — wearing monklike black smocks to reduce reflections from their clothing or skin that might mislead their eyes — began painstakingly to fill in, dot by dot, the blacks, dark grays and cordovan browns that Eakins had put atop the brighter underpainting.
Put two filled in dots on each side, one on top of the other.
When she filed to take the bar exam in 1991, she applied for extra time, a computer, permission to circle the right answer — instead of filling in a dot on a sheet that would be read by a machine — and a place to take the test other than the cavernous Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
"I was painting colored dots all day, and she was filling in colored dots on a computer all day for loom patterns".
With the proposed equipment, voters fill in dots on ballot cards that are counted by an optical scanning machine, the way high school multiple-choice tests are scored.
But they did not use their trusty No. 2 pencils to fill in dots; instead, they practiced their test-taking skills on the Web.
That dot dot dot we have to fill in for ourselves.
The only thing I did was take one 500-question test ya know, filling in the little black dots.
What he has made instead is a sort of associational machine, as dense and obscure as any of the Symbolist poetry that also serves as one of Mr. Godard's reference points, but one that also solicits the viewer's participation in connecting the dots and filling in the blanks.
And in a brief afterword, apparently tacked on to make what are really separate magazine-length pieces into a coherent whole, she cannot resist connecting dots and filling in blanks, as if she worries that her readers, faced with so many subtleties, might be unable to do so themselves.
