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516
Art
ALEX'S RULES OF PORTRAITURE
Your portraits won't look so gimpy if you check to be sure the eyes are on a line half-way between the top of the head and the chin, the inside corners of the eyes are one eye-width apart, the nose is almost halfway between the eyes and chin, the nose is as wide as the distance between the eyes, the corners of the mouth fall directly below the pupils of the eyes, the top of the ears are on eye level, and the bottom of the ears come between the bottom of the nose and the mouth.
Alex Stewart, Atlanta, Georgia
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House and Home
PAINTING A HOUSE
It takes the average person 1 hour to paint 1,000 square feet, plus 1 hour for each window or door.
Rebecca Crowell, artist, Tempe, Arizona
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Photography
TAKING PICTURES INTO THE SUN
When you are shooting subjects into the sun, open the aperture an extra one and a half f-stops.
Jon Reis, photographer, Ithaca, New York
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Building
ESTIMATING MATERIALS
For standard residential construction with wall studs on 16-inch centers, plan on using one stud per linear foot of wall plus two per opening, and you'll be pretty close.
Jim Underwood, Technology Center for Mountain People, Cherry Grove, West Virginia
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Cooking
ICE CREAM
If there's frost on the ice cream in your freezer, it's been there too long.
Kim Murphy, columnist, Portland, Maine
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Quality
BUYING A HOUSE
The first thing to check in a house is the doors and door hardware. If the doors don't fit well or the hardware is cheap and flimsy, the house will be full of problems.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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2052
Crafts
CHOOSING A SHOW FOR YOUR CRAFTS
Craft show attendance figures are exaggerated. Cut the advertised attendance figures in half and expect even less.
Bob Van Streader, Wood 'n Indian, Rochester, New York
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2308
Cooking
EATING CHEESE
The quality of the flavor of cheese is inversely proportional to the thickness of the slice.
Jas. C. O'Neill, Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Restaurants
CHOOSING A RESTAURANT
There is one almost infallible way to find honest food at just prices: count the wall calendars in a cafe. No calendar: same as an interstate pit stop. One calendar: preprocessed food assembled in New Jersey. Two calendars: only if fish trophies present. Three calendars: can't miss on the farm-boy breakfasts. Four calendars: try the homemade pie, too. Five calendars: keep it under your hat, or they'll franchise.
William Least Heat Moon, author of Blue Highways
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Driving
CATCHING BANK ROBBERS
Bank robbers when escaping by car will more often turn right than left.
Paul LaVasseur, Police Officer, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Miscellaneous
QUITTING SMOKING
Remember that the craving for a cigarette lasts only as long as it would take to smoke one.
Thomas Dixon, Writer/Film Maker/Photographer, Newport Beach, CA, United States
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