Word: chalked
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...Chalk up six straight for Harvard...
...King, born Larry Zeiger, was growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and indifferent about school, his father went to the principal and suggested that Larry's teacher install him as eraser monitor. Most kids would have been horrified. Eraser monitors come in early, stay late, get all dusty with chalk, get razzed by classmates. But little Larry Zeiger thought the job was a promotion. Sitting out there on the playground, pounding erasers together and choking on chalk dust, he thought he was on his way at last...
Dozens of blackboards proclaim, in colored chalk, the dizzying array of meals available at Bartley's. The menu itself is jammed with handwritten descriptions of pasta dishes, fried clams ("no bellies"), hot apple pan dowdy, cajun fried sweet potatoes, and of course, Mr. Bartley's celebrated burgers...
...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...
Before rain washed the sidewalk outside Au Bon Pain this week, an artist covered the bricks with a chalk portrait of John Lennon. It was a throwback, perhaps, to the Au Bon Pain that Extension School Student Jordan R. Winer remembers...