Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named Albertine Sarrazin. Hastily, he buys 13 school notebooks. In a few months, apparently with near total recall, he scribbles Part I (1931 to 1945) in longhand and mails it to Sarrazin's editors in Paris. Called Papillon (what else?) and barely touched by an editor's pencil, it sells 1,000,000 copies in France, setting a new French record. It is sold to the Book-of-the-Month Club in the U.S. (this November's selection) and, at an estimated $1,000,000, is contracted for the largest first printing in Pocket Books' history...
...would be returned to me, including my car, and concluded with a surprise. "There will be a gathering of the peasants, and we would like you to make a statement. We want you to tell us your impressions of your stay here." I nodded, and he gave me a pencil and paper. I thought for a few long moments and then began to write. In minutes, I had finished what I wanted to say. He took my copy and walked over to read it by the light of the window. His face creased into a frown. "Some of this...
...News. Outside the profession, much of Lisagor's recognition and prestige is due to his appearances on television, which he pretends to disparage. "I belong to the dirty-fingernail set," he boasts. "Those who work with pencil and notebook, as opposed to the folk heroes on TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather man." He is embarrassed when little girls recognize him and ask for his autograph. Nevertheless, he does a weekly report for NET and is the most frequent guest journalist on NBC's Meet the Press, a program that displays Lisagor...
...Brown. "Chopin tells me the notes at the piano and pushes my hands onto the right keys; if it is a song, Schubert tries to sing it-but he hasn't got a very good voice. Beethoven and Bach prefer to have me seated at the table with pencil and paper; then they give me the key, the timing, the left hand and the right hand...
...kind who uses a pencil or ruler...