Rotogravure

“The real strength of the Sabin organization,” said Time, “lies in the desire of the small-town matron to ally herself, no matter how remotely, with a congregation of bona fide, rotogravure society figures.” ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

The magazine's oversize format, barrage of type and pictures and thin paper with rich rotogravure color look both stylish and cheesy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But there is something about the original FM, with its rich-smelling rotogravure paper and magnificent Basil Gogos cover art, something potent enough to overwhelm the lesser memory of its majority output and the sour feelings associated with buying issue after issue larded with reprints to keep one's collection intact. ❋ Unknown (2008)

/On the avenue, fifth avenue, the photographers will snap us,/And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Newspaper rotogravure ushered in the photojournalism age in the 1890s; movies soon followed; and finally television, and typographic language shriveled before each new wave. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

I knew now why her face was familiar — its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm ❋ Unknown (2003)

On this minor his dream faded — work to do: he tried to imagine himself in Congress rooting around in the litter of that incredible pigsty with the narrow and porcine brows he saw pictured sometimes in the rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers, those glorified proletarians babbling blandly to the nation the ideas of high school seniors! ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Sunday Times, scattered about his feet, proclaimed by rotogravure and editorial, by social revelation and sporting sheet, that the world had been tremendously engrossed during the past week in the business of moving toward some splendid if somewhat indeterminate goal. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They were a well-known couple, Fitzgerald and his "barbarian princess from the South," creating a rotogravure legend which still exists, wavering, in our cultural memory, decorated with anachronistic stills of Astaire and Rogers dancing against a montage of top hats and champagne bottles. ❋ Flanagan, Thomas (2000)

• Lay an inlaid rather than a rotogravure vinyl floor. ❋ PAULA JHUNG (1995)

Printed labels are produced by five basic methods: letterpress, flexographic, silk screen, offset litho and rotogravure. ❋ Unknown (1982)

No sign of Bloat, though dozens of officers go drifting in and out, brown and distant as rotogravure, through the evening. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

French or Italian officer in the rotogravure sections without his cane. ❋ Robert Cortes Holliday (N/A)

The rotogravure sections of Sunday papers contain many pictures of theatrical folks. ❋ Ned Wayburn (N/A)