Word: chalkings
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They taste like chalk, but they're mysteriously addictive. When I bought Conversation Hearts at the end of January, my friends exclaimed "Ooh! I love those!" and grabbed handfuls. No one else seemed to be bothered by the candies, or provoked into writing an editorial. But then again, I over-analyze, I need specifics, and I read between the lines...
...Disappointing Truth Theory. There's nothing to see, after all. Necco is ashamed that their conversation hearts are--well--easy to make (3 T. sugar, 1 t. dye, 1 t. chalk dust. Yield: one conversation heart). They're afraid to let me see that the catchy sayings are not generated by the whimsy of a human mind but by a gigantic, humorless computer, nicknamed "The Lovemaster...
...herself sits down on a wooden chair pulled up at the end of a long table to the side of the master's raised desk. "Do you remember talking to Miss Betsy?" asks Emily's lawyer, pointing to Offerman. The distraught child says nothing but fingers a piece of chalk she has carried from an interview room. "Was what you told her the truth?" the lawyer asks. Emily shakes her head no, then buries it in her elbow...
...easy for Harvard to chalk up its first win when it takes on its undefeated Big East foe, the Boston College Eagles...
Josephine Roberson positions a chalk line along the top of a sheet of plywood as Nolan Derouen flicks the taut string and imprints a fuzzy red stripe across the board. They slice the wood to size, carry it into Betty Hines' living room and nail it to the ceiling. Hines works at the back of the room, straining from the rungs of a ladder as she attaches tiles to the plywood with the aid of one of Derouen's assistants. Heavy rains, excessive groundwater and years of neglect in southern Louisiana's sugarcane region have led to creeping decay...