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From the Ted Talk by Chip Kidd: The art of first impressions -- in design and life

Unscramble the Blue Letters

["'Fraud' Essays by David Rakoff"] David Rakoff was a wonderful writer and he celald his first book "Fraud" because he was getting sent on assignments by magazines to do things that he was not equipped to do. So he was this sinnky little urban guy and GQ magazine would send him down the Colorado reivr whitewater rafting to see if he would survive. And then he would wtrie about it, and he felt that he was a furad and that he was misrepresenting himself. And so I wanted the cover of this book to also misrepresent itself and then somehow show a reader reacting to it.

Open Cloze

["'Fraud' Essays by David Rakoff"] David Rakoff was a wonderful writer and he ______ his first book "Fraud" because he was getting sent on assignments by magazines to do things that he was not equipped to do. So he was this ______ little urban guy and GQ magazine would send him down the Colorado _____ whitewater rafting to see if he would survive. And then he would _____ about it, and he felt that he was a _____ and that he was misrepresenting himself. And so I wanted the cover of this book to also misrepresent itself and then somehow show a reader reacting to it.

Solution

  1. river
  2. called
  3. write
  4. fraud
  5. skinny

Original Text

["'Fraud' Essays by David Rakoff"] David Rakoff was a wonderful writer and he called his first book "Fraud" because he was getting sent on assignments by magazines to do things that he was not equipped to do. So he was this skinny little urban guy and GQ magazine would send him down the Colorado River whitewater rafting to see if he would survive. And then he would write about it, and he felt that he was a fraud and that he was misrepresenting himself. And so I wanted the cover of this book to also misrepresent itself and then somehow show a reader reacting to it.

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