As an instinctive collaborator, Hancock is well suited to the current vogue for vast corporate projects fronted by a parade of marketable singers.
"In general," wrote one forensic pioneer, "born criminals have projecting ears, thick hair, a thin beard, projecting front eminences, enormous jaws".
With muscular corner quoins — blocklike forms — and a gable over a projecting front, it could have been a men's clubhouse.
At this moment of self-congratulation regarding the human genome project (front page, June 27), I feel the need to throw sand on the fire.
One sketch that survives shows a convertible, longer and lower than the final car, but with the projecting front fenders, W-shape front end and forward-leaning face that would eventually reach production.
As The Times reported in 2009 ("Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project," front page, July 12), the former vice president "was the Bush administration's most vehement defender of the secrecy of government activities".
Rather than hide the wheels, BMW placed them on aluminum arms that project front and back, like paws, adding 3 inches on each end to the usual 30-inch length.
But Valerie Brugler, the office manager, has a photograph dated 1863 — before the 1866 alteration — that shows the right-hand side, presumably unchanged from 1859, with a smaller projecting front very close in design to the 1866 work.
A sketch signed by the Buick designer Ned Nickles, widely credited with the design of the personal coupe, depicts a dual-cowl convertible, longer and lower that the eventual production car, but with the projecting front fenders and forward-leaning, W-shaped grille of the Riviera.
Modeling a more slender ship hull while keeping the projected front and side area of the ship similar, yields an average decrease in total wind load of 5.9%.
