Word: inking
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Just how rich and varied that middle range can be is shown by a sampling of recent openings in London. The best of the lot: Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard, whose brilliant 1993 Arcadia is still going strong in London (and opens on Broadway next week). Like Arcadia, Indian Ink interweaves two time periods and settings, in this case present-day England and 1930 India. Also like its companion piece, the new play is framed as a quest by a careerist academic who is loaded with data but doesn't have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching...
...those disappearing markers that come inside boxes of Lucky Charms. In those inviting slots she had tucked a fascinating armament of pens and mechanical pencils and ever since then I've been a writing utensil snob. I revel in the satisfaction of taking notes in just the right color ink and with a pen of exactly the right weight. Not just any pen will do for any occasion...
...English 178x section yielded the following results: four ball-pointers, seven roller-ball-users and a lone pencil person. Hmmm. Is the roller-ball phenomenon a throwback from days of fountain pen prevalence? Perhaps proud owners cherish their Pilot Precises and their UniBall Deluxes for their decisive, permanent ink or for the little windows through which they can watch the ink go down and think, "boy, I sure write a lot!" The Harvard humanities notetaker comes to adore the flowing pages upon pages of intellectual-looking lecture notes...
...little league team slogan, squeezed between well-manicured fingernails? In German class, I saw the ball-point ratio skyrocket. Even the Europeans, whom I had always romanticized as the last bastion of the noble fountain-pen glory, were filling in blanks on vocabulary sheets with the sliding ink of Bic pens--the kind you can buy in 20-packs at CVS. These plastic wonders are a good ol' standby, always there to jot down messages for your roommate on a Post-it or, more importantly, for you to chew on. What a perfect companion a blueberry-colored, Paper Mate makes...
...bank failures came seven weeks after the government seizure of another institution, Banco Progreso, with losses initially estimated at $635 million. After auditors took a close look at the books, the red ink nearly doubled; it may wind up totaling more than $2 billion...