Word: crayolas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Indeed, color seems to have had its way with these artists; each piece is a miniature explosion against the gallery's stark white walls. The blues in the paintings are lovely, though underused and overshadowed by duller oranges and greens. Butterly's glazes would make a Crayola crayon envious, as well they should after a reported 15 firings...
...skills. At 27, she left a career handling multimillion-dollar paintings at Christie's auction house to get a master's degree in social work. Five years later, after working as a therapist, Brown founded Room to Grow by organizing collection drives and persuading baby-product makers like Crayola and Fisher-Price to donate goods. "Asking for donations, convincing someone of your point of view--I learned all that at Christie's," says Brown, 34. She also learned how to think big: she's planning an October benefit at Christie's with Uma Thurman as host and stars like Liam...
...fight in the primaries against Bill Bradley, but rather Gore's battle with himself - his struggle to subdue his demon of weird things, the dybbuk that, for example, made him wear that necktie last night (it looked like a poisonous snake from Brazil, or a a preschooler's Crayola work) or that prompts him to claim, from time to time, to have invented electricity, Velcro, or the fax machine...
...Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon," writes Robert Fulghum in my favorite of his musings. "And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air--explode softly--and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air," depositing boxes of crayons "with the sharpener built right in.... And people would smile and get a funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination...
...judges for the slam, hand-picked from the audience by Brown, aren't quite as inconspicuous. They mark their scores for each poet on a scrap of paper with a fat Crayola marker. The audience also acts as judge, prodded by Brown to "respond appropriately--which means not always well." The crowd laughs and, as if anyone needs encouragment, the bartender shouts out: "drink a little more and the poetry will sound even better...