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...market, and H&R Block, which holds most of the rest with its TaxCut suite, according to market-tracker NPD Group - certainly bring in a tidy profit. But many of their customers are perpetual do-it-yourselfers like myself, people who have left behind paper and pencil, not a professional tax preparer. I like to think that I'm a numbers person and would do my own taxes no matter what. But the truth of the matter is, I have a relatively simple tax situation, one of the few advantages of not having much money...
...across her face, as if someone has switched on a spotlight. She's smart, too, likes social studies best, and especially learning about different cultures in far-off lands. Crouched on a mat in a refugee camp on Sri Lanka's east coast, flicking the pages of a schoolbook, pencil by her side, she looks like a normal kid. And then you spot it: Jeevatharsini has no left arm. Through the hole in her dress where her upper arm should join her shoulder, a stump is just visible, the skin slightly puckered where the surgeon has stretched it back across...
...started furiously brushing away the dirty feathers and bits of dried manure from the patch of Broadway in front of him, making the odors and motes rise and swirl as she cleared a place for him to step. When she came for her wage, he noticed that his writing pencil was still gripped tight in his hand, so he ceremoniously placed both it and a penny in the girl's open palm. She glanced up quizzically, registered his smile, winked her good eye and plunged the pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting "Danken...
Another time, during a jocular skirmish, my roommate graffitied on the wall (in pencil, of course), “Ben is a faggot.” We look back on this and laugh: The day a hate crime was visited on Currier House...
Spanning back to his youth, the exhibit showcases some 500 drawings and sketches (most kept for years in unopened boxes and cupboards), more than 130 photographs, and 35 paintings, like the watercolor Rain (2005), above. From cheeky doodles in pencil and pen and complex geometric shapes on matchbook covers, to black-and-white photographs of abandoned factories and digitally reworked 19th and 20th century nudes, a portrait emerges of a man fascinated by the emotional response to the physical world and the human form. The exhibit seems to have given Lynch a creative jolt as well (not that he needed...