Word: crayons
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...record of Seurat's thought lies as much in his drawings as in his final paintings. He drew on Ingres paper with Conte crayon, a waxy black stick that, stroked over the rough surface, produced a slightly blurred line and deep granular tones -- the equivalent of his intricately speckled surfaces in painting. And he was a great draftsman -- one of the greatest since the Renaissance, worthy, at the top of his form, of being compared to Rembrandt or Goya...
...coach's prayer sessions. Unfortunately, the author employs a nauseating stream-of-consciousness style--the entire story takes, place in the mind of a pitcher during one at-bat. In addition, the language used in this story is pretentious and unlikely--would a pitcher really refer to those "whose crayon mouths masticate rubbery soft and juices boil over like sour...
...concrete wall of an underpass on Rakoczi Street in Budapest, someone has scrawled in black crayon DOWN WITH COMMUNISTS. Two years ago, such a sign of opposition would have been quickly removed by Hungary's Communist rulers. Now the graffiti not only survive, but the Communists are saying much the same thing themselves...
Should a law protecting the flag also protect homemade facsimiles of the flag? Is a crayon drawing of the flag a flag...
...Colored" implied that white was the correct color, and that one was colored, say, with a crayon, incorrectly. "Negro," because it was widely-used in the 19th century along with the other "N"-word, recalls the days of slavery and oppression. "Afro-American" reminds Blacks of the Afro hair styles worn...