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...titles affixed to his paintings betray his ignorance of the tongue. He learned little of the native myths, committing to canvas misconstructions so gross that Tahitians would have laughed if they had understood them. To the end of his days, he painted human figures on the guideline checkerboards, like graph paper, that steady the novice's uncertain hand...
...Clubroom. Pro Quarterback is the brainchild of Tod Lansing, 52, a retired public relations man who reconstructed it from a game he had worked out on graph paper as a boy. Says Lansing: "Any fan feels that if he were a little bit bigger or a little bit faster or a little bit younger-well, then he'd certainly show everyone a thing or two. This is the guy's chance...
Allen's method of writing is directly experiential: he tries to graph the movements of the mind during the act of composition. To revise becomes an act of dishonesty. Poetry is then one person talking intimately to another. He believes in the common humanity of his listeners and, a little ingenuously, trusts them...
Ellen Manville (Anne Jackson) appears, and she not only has a case history but a graph to illustrate it. Vividly charted for each "seven-day period" over months and years, it shows how the number of Ellen and Milt's "sexual experiences" has plummeted. Ellen warms to Harry, even though he is a love-testing suitor who stomps on her foot, rips her dress to the waist and throws her mink coat in the river. Four months later, the trio is back at the bridge, sadder still, and at curtain's drop Harry is being chased...
...ebullient and cluttered catholicity stems directly from the nature of Humphrey's liberalism. A football coach of a politician, constantly exhorting and rallying and cheering, the Senator has little time for analytic ponderings. He conceives the political world as a bundle of pressing problems, not as a sheet of graph paper to be inscribed with this or that ideological pattern...