Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern art, he kept on the move. Well before the prestige of minimalism as a historic style began to ebb, Stella was recomplicating his paintings, leading them with a dazzling display of neon, pearly and metallic colors, scribbling over the once sober surfaces with oil stick and grease pencil, and replacing their geometrical symmetries with fantastically wreathing curlicues, squiggles and French curves. It was as though the main theme of art in the past ten years-the move from silence to noise, from polemical emptiness to glutted fullness-had been written, ahead of time, in Stella's work...
During the extended break, #25 wins $10 worth of wine and #260, no doubt in ecstasy, claims his new battery-operated pencil sharpener. The rest lie supine, giving each other an occasional back massage or other gesture of affection...
After reading about the Soviet Union's fear of our nuclear missiles, I turned to the article on the harassment of Soviet Historian Roy Medvedev [Jan. 31]. In the photograph of Medvedev, I saw an even greater Soviet fear: a brave, thoughtful man armed only with a pencil...
...line." It is not a wrong number, nor is the businesslike voice on the receiving end peddling tips on how much the local health inspector will take to overlook the roaches in a restaurant. The phone is manned by an alert agent of the FBI, who listens with poised pencil to any caller's allegation that local officials are crooks...
...diamond formation: "They want to be graphite, and with a relatively modest boost of heat graphite is what they would become, if atmospheric oxygen did not incinerate them first. They are, in this sense, unstable-these finger-flashing symbols of the eternity of vows, yearning to become fresh pencil lead." Noting that the last Ice Age stopped around Ebbets Field, vanished home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he writes: "When a long-ball hitter hit a long ball, it would land on Bedford Avenue and bounce down the morainal front to roll toward Coney on the outwash plain...