Word: charcoaling
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...that weighs 160 lbs., he gets rather queasy about the evening cookout. He sloshes his Scotch from cheek to cheek like a chipmunk hoarding for a famine and finally gulps it like a plug of tobacco. His pouring hand is so erratic with the lighter fluid that he practically charcoal-broils the house...
...crazy, she is fascinating. Just for kicks she dresses up like a bum, smears on a charcoal mustache, goes tramping along the Boul' Mich in broad daylight. She keeps her love letters in a chamber...
...illustration [on which the Eisenhower painting was to be based], I would put it into a projector. If the machine didn't throw an image large enough for the size of the canvas the President wanted, I would draw the subject larger. Then I would outline in charcoal on the canvas the subject the President wanted to paint. The President got a great deal of satisfaction from his painting...
...Foggmen had taken extraordinary pains with these. To produce the two forgeries, they made a printed facsimile of the original. They then went over the reproductions with charcoal, smudging a bit here, rubbing a bit there. They went over the signatures in pencil, even reproduced two tiny fungus growths that appeared in the original. As a final touch, they placed one of the forgeries in the handsome frame and mat belonging to the original...
...painted in the President's oval office, for about seven hours each day. Between appointments, Kennedy would chat with Annigoni; at other times, with important visitors present, "they thought of me as a chair, a piece of furniture." Once the President wryly suggested his disapproval of a bold charcoal line representing his chin. The President showed Annigoni a small painting by another artist. "She'd be angry," he said, "if she knew I was showing it to you." Before long, Annigoni met the other artist, and they got along so well that an enchanted Annigoni sent Jackie...