Back in the studio, he can tidy it all up in a painting and then pin it down again with the pencil top-drawings that are one of his original contributions to English painting.
"Stadium shows rarely sell out, even the top-drawing bands".
Cohn promoted some of the top-drawing actors of the 1940s and '50s, notably Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, and Kim Novak.
The Pistons, one of the N.B.A.'s top-drawing teams in the last decade, are 19th in the league in attendance this season, at 15,629 fans per game.
They are also booking the top-drawing names from yesterday including Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Kiss, Davy Jones and K.C. and the Sunshine Band.
For the last several years Ms. Maye has been a top-drawing act at the Metropolitan Room on 22nd Street off Fifth Avenue, where her shows have packed the house with a frenziedly adoring claque.
Even the top-drawing musician in Los Angeles's current avant-garde, the guitarist Nels Cline, brings in only about 200 people on a good night at a popular club like the Troubadour.
"Any Given Sunday," Oliver Stone's look at the world of pro football, was the country's top-drawing film when it opened just before New Year's and continues to do well at the box office.
Although Behemoth's American fan base is slowly growing ("The Apostasy" made its debut at No. 149 on the album chart, the band's best-ever showing), this group still seems pretty exotic in America, where the top-drawing metal bands tend to be a little more approachable and a little less disorienting.
As the system stalled at the level of schematic drawings, top executives kept shuttling between jobs at the agency and jobs with the high-paying contractors.
My host was one of the top collectors of drawings in Chicago, and he was very pleased to be showing me his collection — an enthralling collection, primarily of old masters.
