Word: pasteles
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...shapely young woman of 24 with large brown eyes, she earns most of her living making pastel sketches of pouting theatrical beauties for theatre lobbies. In Boston her talents were first discovered by the undergraduates of Harvard...
...these "three new stories of the West" Author Gather's readers may be surprised by discovering none of the pastel coloring of Shadows on the Rock. They are more in the tone of Author Gather's earlier books?My Antonia, A Lost Lady. With the rest of Author Gather's work, they share the charm of an artistry that is warm, simple and intelligent, the charm of a writer who feels about her characters somewhat as Doctor Burleigh feels about old Neighbor Rosicky: "The doctor picked up his stethoscope and frowned at it. ... He wished it had been telling tales...
...Paris, New York, London and that sport of all caricaturists from Tenniel to Ralph Barton, burlesques of famed paintings. Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because it relies so little on Distortion. He has a passion for detail. Drawing in a mixture of pencil, pastel and oil paint he builds an effective, hilarious whole by concentrating on a few minutiae: the wrinkles in Secretary Stimson's coats, the gaunt wrists of a Park Avenue doorman, the wild hair and felt slippers of a French bistro waiter...
...point protectors, rubber tips. In its line are the Mongol colored pencils ("Paint with Pencils"), weatherproof pencils, eyebrow pencils. Newspapermen like its Black Knight, a blunt pencil not likely to break in a crisis. Faber claims to be the largest maker of erasers and recently offered rubber bands in pastel shades. It is thought to make 25% of popular-priced pencils. Its line comprises 250 varieties not including various degrees of hardness which sometimes run as high as 18 to a pencil...
...living rooms in every house, and quadrangle, where the grass is as fine as a putting green, and men in the college can get an occasional sight or scent of flowers there in season. We liked the great, scroll-worked gates, and the tall arches. We liked the unreal pastel tints of the soaring domes, and we liked the formal garden effect of the trim-banked Charles...