Addressing NBC's annual affiliates convention at the Century Plaza, Cosby dryly theorized that ABC programmers felt they needed shows with more "cars flying" and "tall white men--with mustaches". The Cosby series, which helped propel NBC to second place in the prime-time ratings last season, had been offered to ABC--although only in sketchy form--during a brief snag in negotiations with NBC.
A sketchy form of Delftware, the piece dates from 1959.
But sketchy form since means he has fallen down the pecking order behind Scott Borthwick, who was run out for two in Durham's first innings and bowled for four by Adam Lyth's off-spinners in the second.
Ostensibly a graphic artist — relentlessly lettering and cartooning, filling surfaces with sketchy forms, and using color, if at all, mainly to fill in drawn shapes — he is in fact a painter to the core, always concerned with a picture's physical character and immediate impact.
In "Reflection," the sketchy ship form seems almost to dissolve in the blue ground.
As is often the case, details emerged in sketchy fashion.
It is an excuse for a reverie in sketchy color of extraordinary beauty.
The brushwork in sketchy strokes gives it a modernist touch that is now highly appreciated.
Don't do this in sketchy areas or go into anyone's house for any reason.
But in "The Body" the hero, adrift both as a famous oldster in London cultural circles and as a beautiful youngster in the party circles of Europe, is so assimilated, so denatured, so securely removed from the lively, home-based ethnic/ethical conflicts usually driving Kureishi's fiction that his sketchy adventures form less a novel than a parable.
