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...madras shorts, a massive masseur, a maid, a secretary, three wardrobe women (she has three copies of each dress she wears in the film), and Paula Strasberg. Dramatic coach, lay analyst, and wife of the Actors' Studio's Lee Strasberg, Paula stayed close to her ward, nib bled away at a large palmetto fan, sent notes around the set on postcards that pictured an ax and a chopping block. Wearing a black babushka, black glasses, black duster and carrying a black bag that seemed to contain everything from tranquilizers to a bunch of half-dead roses, she tossed...
...Blind Power you are after, there is nothing like the Editorial Board. Distortion, flippantry and rhetoric are only a few of the daggers in your belt. Before your nib is even dry, Deans tremble, theatres close, and Presidential Assistants resign...
...Young man?" she questioned, putting a fresh nib in her Victorian wooden...
...various points in this book, the reader learns that Graves has "bitter black Protestant blood," inherited from a grandfather, the last Protestant Bishop of Limerick; that at his home in Majorca he writes 500 words a day with a steel nib; that he dislikes Guggenheim fellowships ("When I was young . . . one didn't expect to be publicly supported just because one happened to write unsaleable verse"); and that he likes to test a poet's verboseness by summarizing stanzas in cablese, e.g., Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper": SOLITARY HIGHLAND LASS REAPING BINDING GRAIN STOP MELANCHOLY SONG OVERFLOWS...
BALLPOINT PENS will be tested by the Post Office Department to replace the scratchy, ink-spilling nib pens. The department has shipped out 20,000 Scriptos, will chain them to desks in 17 cities, e.g., Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, use no chains in Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit. Whether post offices adopt ballpoints depends on 1) how the pens stand up, 2) how many are stolen...