An 18-foot crocodile sculpture that the architect Frank O. Gehry made for a trendy restaurant in Venice, Calif., suddenly finds new meaning alongside a Gregorian telescope, which in turn makes sense of a delicate 1830's handbill about astronomical lectures found under the bed of Ricky Jay, the Hollywood actor and sleight-of-hand wizard.
At the assembly headquarters today, volunteers wearing "Vote No T-shirtss hurried about, unpacking fliers and handbills and scrambling to assemble teams to monitor polling stations.
(Unless, of course, you pass out handbills to bystanders explaining about your lost MetroCard).
Norman Singer, the City Center's general administrator, identified the group and told about the handbills being distributed explaining the orchestra's position.
Nobody has claimed responsibility, and the Barbour campaign says it knows nothing about the handbills and denies involvement in any divisive tactics.
He was talking about the plain handbills, advertising Buchinger and others; like nearly everything in the show they weren't supposed to last longer than what they ballyhooed.
Mr. Song and his wife, who is also Chinese-born, were detained in August in Beijing, where he had been gathering yellowing Communist Party newspapers and handbills published during the Cultural Revolution, about which he has written two books and several articles.
Among the earliest products of the printing press were broadsheets about the size of handbills on which were printed the text of ballads.
Advertisements for books, in the form of handbills or broadsheets, are known from about 1466 onward, including one of Caxton's of 1477, ending with a polite request not to tear it down, Supplico stet cedula ("Please let the poster stand").
Many are milling about with their own homemade handbills, eager to get the word out for whomever they are searching from hospital to hospital.
