Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost ready to chalk the entire idea by Thanksgiving of his sophomore year, right after he Ken Nortoned some walking Walabbee from Milton in the jaw for snickering when he asked Paco to pass the Fritos at a party. Right then he realized he was a leech, like the guy in the Popeye cartoon who would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today, and who everybody knew was never even going to have enough money to pay for the relish. But still he was learning, he was watching these people, watching how they dressed and how they talked...
...Michael Mao and Elizabeth Mallinckrodt cavort on and off, first mindlessly motioning like rock dancers, then dressing up to parade as nobility. They end dumping their pile of costumes on the head of Sally Lewiecki, who throughout lies inertly on a black coffin-like box, showing us only her chalk-white face and her hands gesturing like non-human flesh...
...further, but Close is restrained by his desire to make drawings rather than diagrams. The ink-drawn squares, each with its precise ration of diagonal shading, give one a visual effect that belongs to the same family - though not the same order of majestic intensity - as Seurat's chalk drawings; the spots of pastel in the stud ies for Linda are distributed with a dogged aesthetic zeal that recalls Signac...
...Chalk. Freed by his assistants from chalking diagrams on a blackboard, West has concentrated on overall strategy and getting the best possible play from his charges. But it is in inspiring somewhat lackluster talents that he has excelled. With the coach leading the cheers, the Los Angeles bench resembles a rah-rah college crew more than a collection of blasé professionals. West passes the hours on planes and in the team bus building the Lakers' confidence and, seemingly, willing them into winners. A genuine camaraderie has developed among the Lakers, and West has led the off-court high...
...makeup of the group, Smith dismissed the idea as "political suicide." He insisted instead on Henry Kissinger's proposal of a balanced black-white council of state operating over a two-year period. The two schemes, Smith told a radio-TV audience last week, were "as different as chalk and cheese." Black African leaders, however, have viewed the Kissinger plan-or at least Smith's interpretation of it-as merely a starting point for negotiation...