In Canada, on the Naskapi reservation, she took her own tentative pictures of Indian life.
A tentative physical picture based on optical energy storage and increased scatterers was proposed to elucidate the experimental results.
Partly inspired by the soundtracks to arcane horror movies, it's a meticulously constructed, cinematic work that moves from eerie paranoia to tentative optimism, painting vivid mental pictures as it goes.
Yet, as a broad tentative generalization, the prevailing picture is that of a weak causal relationship.
As the novel's short chapters (averaging 3.9 pages each) alternate between these two, tentative answers arrive, the picture develops, and further questions accumulate.
The magazines can compete in only the most tentative way for party pictures -- everyone is invited everywhere -- or for original gossip, because their scooplets typically turn up in New York City newspapers before any Hamptons magazine goes to bed.
The railyards, bridges and meat-markets; the fires in street-corner trash-cans; the freight trains grumbling under pink-scarred skies these are as integral to the picture as the tentative romance between Rocky and his sweetheart Adrian (Talia Shire), or the infrequent and extravagantly brutal boxing matches.
"The teams would be given a packet, with pictures and a tentative grid," he said.
The pictures in the last room, from 1987, do not have anything like the authority of the earlier ones... Some of the 1982 pictures have a tentative, unfinished look, while other, later ones seem fully resolved and pulsing with energy.
