Word: crayon
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...glossary of terms" in the back. And you can bet that the author doesn't intend for artists to fill in the line drawings with Crayola's new, vibrant colors: "wild strawberry" or "jungle green." No, Smith wants colorists to learn: If that means using the same depressing gray crayon on page after page in order to maintain accuracy, then...
Fifteen dollars is a lot to pay for a wooden comb which isn't significantly different from a drugstore plastic one. Crayons or pencil leads stuck in inch-thick twigs (complete with bark) are unwieldy and rough to the touch, and contribute (as do the combs) to deforestation through the unnecessary and wasteful use of wood. Besides, at $3.50 a crayon, it would take a month's wages to amass a 64-color...
...also tells of his AIDS scare and paranoia about death, and harks back to his mother's suicide, the point in the book that he cannot get past. Gray then reminisces about a therapy in which he writes his therapist a check every week in a different colored Crayon...
Since violet blue was retired 14 months ago, 300 crayon aficionados a month have been complaining to Crayola maker Binney & Smith. The Easton, Pa., company took eight traditional colored crayons off the market and replaced them with such New Age hues as cerulean, dandelion and vivid tangerine. But protests from groups such as RUMPS (the Raw Umber and Maize Preservation Society) have swayed the crayon giant. One million boxes of the Crayola Eight came back on the market last week...
...Kids just love the eight new colors, but Moms like the old eight we replaced," explained Richard Gurin, the company's president. "We decided, at least for now, they are both right." Declared Robert Pagani, president of CRAYON (the Committee to Reestablish All Your Old Norms): "This is a great moral victory." And you thought the fall of the Berlin Wall was a milestone in history...