Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...military debris--from MiG fighters to helmets--is being bulldozed into piles. The runway apron has been extended. Offices and a gym are under construction. The Post Exchange supply shop has begun to accept credit cards. There are even efforts to control the ever-present dust, a fine gray chalk that infiltrates everything--seams, food, mouths--and turns to slime at the slightest hint of rain. And while U.S. officers concede that the mission in Afghanistan has no end date, they do like to point to the fact that most of the new construction is in wood, not brick...
...Crockett, Harvard’s captain and best starting pitcher, walked across the chalk lines at O’Donnell Field last May having just hurled a no-hitter. In his last outing of the season—and possibly his college career—Crockett held Ivy rival Dartmouth hitless over nine innings with one devastating curveball after another. It was the performance of a lifetime for the Harvard righthander, and it came just days before the Major League Baseball draft...
...could chalk up my experience to the ravings of a lunatic; you could dismiss me as weak-willed or yellow-bellied. But I think that my irrational, obsessive fear of flying is intimately related to the qualities that got me into Harvard. My ability to concentrate, my independence, my highly-trained skepticism all contributed to an obsessive fear that got out of hand. Once the seeds of doubt were sowed, my mind voraciously seized on the question, analyzing every potential hazardous scenario, playing out the screaming voices in ever-more excruciating detail. The focus that is usually so helpful...
Ursula von Rydingsvard carefully outlines a pattern in chalk on a cedar beam before it is violently carved with a circular saw. The serrated blade incises the wood as sawdust flies about her Brooklyn studio...
...never make a model for anything; the model never informs me,” she said as she showed photographs taken in her Brooklyn loft. In one slide, she held her chalk in hand as she outlined the form to be cut by craftsmen she calls “the princes of my studio...