Word: doodler
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Second best is probably the telephone. A reluctant memo writer (though a prolific doodler), Murdoch directs his far-flung empire almost entirely by phone. For an hour most nights, he conducts a long-distance séance (at $3 a minute) with Ken May, his Australian proconsul, from the 18th century desk in his study. Murdoch can be a telephonic terror. Pubs full of sacked editors in London and Sydney curse his quick temper, his reluctance to dispense praise?...
...best views. In 1938 he developed the U.S.'s first coronagraph, a telescopic device that allows scientists to study the sun's glowing halo without the help of an eclipse. Menzel was a prolific author of scientific books and science fiction, and an accomplished doodler, whose sketches have been exhibited widely...
...INSPECTOR by Saul Steinberg. Unpaged. Viking. $10. Something less than a genius who doodles but something more than a doodler of genius, Steinberg goes on defying categories, preconceptions and occasionally-perspective. In this, his sixth book of drawings in three decades, hints of satire flicker over images of parades, masks, street corners and architecture. Is Steinberg making some point about bureaucratic conformity, say, or cultural cacophony? Perhaps. But too much interpretation spoils the fun. What interpretation is needed, anyway, of an artist who can symbolize what a dog thinks and render a woman's conversation as a series...
...starts doodling some very silly, funny little things. And the announcer says: "Introducing a new executive status symbol-Flair. To the casual observer, Flair is a dignified, serious, executive pen. But when you're alone, Flair reveals its true identity as the executive play pen. The greatest doodler in the world. This Christmas give him the executive play pen, Flair...
...goes only as far as Cincinnati, but there he is at last free to foliate as he pleases-and peeping through the foliage is a ripe young secretary. But the most surprising development of this renaissance is artistic. A lifelong doodler, the AWOL diplomat tries a little weekend sketching and (here we Gauguin!) is startled to find that he is an artist of astonishing power-a Rubens, perhaps, with a touch of Renoir. Within a year he is in Paris, painting his broad-hipped housemaid by day, panting for her by night. But the late-blooming bohemian's idyl...