It is a jumble of bits and pieces, full of echoes of elsewhere, giving the overall impression of paper-thin surfaces held together in an energetic collage.
Still, the executives involved give the impression, on paper at least, of being sincere.
Mr. Frasconi's was patient and meticulous in his art, which involves making an impression on paper from a design carved in a block of wood.
So the impression, on paper, that the bureaucrats are getting a disproportionate slice of the cake, is misleading.
The technique involved drawing in ink onto a copper plate, scraping with sticks, rags or the finger to bring out the image, and taking a single impression on a sheet of paper.
In general, having fewer papers in highly respected journals tends to give a better impression than lots of papers in "lesser" journals.
The ESC ruling, which was based on the July 17 Radio 2 breakfast show and a sample of other newspaper reviews on Sarah Kennedy programmes, added: "The committee also agreed that the consistent use of the paper and verbal references to the paper, gave the impression of endorsing that particular newspaper over others.
First, they don't have to print thousands of identical copies of the same image; the impression made on successive sheets of paper can be entirely different.
Literati are present in Bernard Perlin's silverpoint drawing of the reticent E. M. Forster (1947) and in an undated ink-on-paper impression of a dour James Joyce by Pavel Tchelitchew.
For other editors, a face-to-face meeting gives a better impression of reviewer quality than papers written.
