Word: crayon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail, from Harvard and from people who are writing in crayon from places you don't want to know about," he said...
Inhabiting Toshi's heart and soul with absolute conviction, Brown shows us how Americans might look to a confused admirer, with their "blue-tinged complexions," their "crayon-colored eyes," their habit of wishing on everything, even "when breaking dried chicken bones." In effect, he turns the usual "The Japanese are so strange!" cliche inside out. Toshi's unsteady American girlfriend suddenly says things like, "You think I'm awful, don't you? I am, I'm dreadful and I'm not pretty," and, where the Japanese tend to present images of happy families, Toshi notes, Americans "offer up their unhappy...
...Steve Baldwin, who works right here at Time Inc. and specializes in creating wads (Doomspeak for new levels). Steve has created an elaborate wad that looks exactly like the 37th floor of the Time & Life Building. The Wad Master, like me, is a mild-mannered, bespectacled guy with a crayon picture on his desk drawn by a young daughter. But he has it all figured out. "Why watch Rambo when you can be Rambo?" he asks. What I want to know is how to get out of Level 6. I tell him where I'm stuck, a place that looks...
Another journal entry by a student of hers named Amanda has the words "I like the slim the most today," in fluorescent crayon above a picture of "Jenn...
...through this show one catches such premonitory notes, and one realizes what a big submerged effect Kline must have had on some of the better artists now alive: Richard Serra, for instance, whose dark walls of steel and thickly scrubbed-on black-crayon drawings evoke the same urban-industrial landscape that inspired Kline, or Brice Marden, or Cy Twombly, who lent this show a bunch of Kline's quickly brushed, frail sketches done on now crumbling pages of Manhattan telephone directories. These studies, not incidentally, dispose of the myth that Kline was a wholly spontaneous painter who staked everything...