vignette
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- n a brief literary description
- n a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- n a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- Told in a vaguely chronological order, each vignette explores a different aspect of the change from childhood to the alienated world of the teenager.
- Then, as if he didn't set enough of a challenge for himself, Clowes will often carry some event or object over from one vignette to the next.
- In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he .