Word: crayons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opens with credits superimposed over a crayon drawing of grass, trees, and the like, which dissolve into Alec Guiness's boots, whence we pan up to Guiness's face. And from here Dr. Zhivago begins a long downhill trek, surprising us about every ten minutes when it can't get worse but does...
...Matisse suffered from intestinal cancer. In his town house in Nice, he painted from his bed or wheelchair, surrounded by women-his beautiful secretary, two models, a nurse, cook and maid. Even though an invalid, he still drew in masterly style using a 10-ft. bamboo pole with a crayon on its tip. With this and a pair of scissors, he created his last great masterpiece, the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence. With cut-out colored paper he designed stained glass, tile stations of the Cross, even abstract chasubles. In carving his colors with his hands in forms that...
Caught at the Pass. Innocent skiers have also developed some defensive ploys. On the lodge walls at Stowe, Vt., they crayon huge messages saying "New Yorkers, go home." Even more direct -and effective-is the practice of splitting up pairs of skis, placing them hundreds of feet apart. Sometimes husbands and wives will leave a his-her pair on one side of the lodge, their mates mated off on the other, and stomp off to have a carefree lunch. But even that is not infallible. Recently a racer at Squaw Valley stashed his Head Competitor skis in widely separated locations...
...judge told her that because he was "in charge of" the trial, Hoffa "is going to be convicted." Marie conveniently failed to explain how she and Wilson happened to run into each other at the Read House, identified him in her affidavit by circling a newspaper picture in black crayon...
Along the way, the self-portrait developed its own problems. Chagall tried and abandoned nearly a dozen. Finally he achieved what he wanted -a pensive ink-and-crayon study of himself with palette and easel, at a window of his studio, the characteristic colors of his beloved Vence countryside in the background. When Senior Editor Cranston Jones had the cover story and the color pages of Chagall's work ready to go to press and the last points were being checked, the master decided that the experience was "one of the great events of my life." Having recently received...