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On the computer and in a stack of scrapbooks beside her, Cunha – watched by her 13-year-old daughter Yasmim – flips through photos and cuttings of community actions, including a series of protests residents held last year to pressure the prefeitura – city hall – to provide them with what it has long promised: formal, conventional water, sewage and electricity provision.
Twitter's IPO will encourage firms such as Pinterest, a service that lets people create online scrapbooks of images, and Quora, a social question-and-answer site, to consider going public too.
Detective Sergeant Roberts's six packed scrapbooks are testimony to that: sentry duty at Rhodesia House after Ian Smith had ordered the hanging of three black men; crowd control during the controversial Springbok tour in 1970; and front-line duty at anti-Vietnam demonstrations outside the American Embassy.
The artist Damien Hirst has taken on the considerable job of curating the archive of Joe Strummer lyrics, drawings, photographs and miscellania gathered from scrapbooks and from the mountains of plastic bags which Joe carried around on tours, before bringing them home to Somerset.
There are pop videos, film clips and a truly dreadful, sub-Marceau mime about a performer who can't get his mask off… There are letters from the famous (one a slyly seductive postcard from Christopher Isherwood) and fans' scrapbooks , a contacts sheet of Brian Duffy's flash-of-lightning portrait, and an application form asking if he'd like to update his Spotlight entry.
In the past three or four years, the contents of our scrapbooks and garden sheds have made their way online.
Her props include the running scrapbooks in which she draws up time-lines and character questionnaires.
Rupert Fast, Esher, Surrey When Winston Churchill died in 1965, my primary school classmates and I were asked to produce scrapbooks of his life and of his funeral from newspaper and magazine cuttings.
Shimansky keeps a pile of black-paged scrapbooks.
Some writers, like Philip Hamburger, who has written for the magazine for 60 years, have their own scrapbooks.
I had long assumed that Pop Gates's scrapbooks had been discarded, perhaps after a spring cleaning, by someone who wasn't aware of their value or by someone who didn't wish to revisit the past.
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The primary grammatical function of "scrapbooks" is as a plural noun , referring to multiple physical albums or books used for collecting and preserving items like photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia. Ludwig confirms this use, with numerous examples illustrating its function in descriptive contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
