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Throughout the show one sees an absolute mastery of the processes of drawing: the making of marks but also the making of the instruments with which to make them. In the 15th century one did not walk into a shop and buy a pencil. One had to make the silverpoint or the twig of charcoal. One had to cut the pen and shape its nib from a quill. All of this was wound in with the technique of drawing and helped to determine its intensity. That is one of the reasons why small drawings (and most of Leonardo's drawings...
Outside the studio, Eminem continued to act like someone who listens to too many Eminem CDs. At the MTV Video Music Awards, he threatened to deck Moby, the pencil-necked vegan techno musician who criticized him for his homophobic lyrics. And yet this fall Eminem managed to win over even p.c. middle-aged white critics with his semiautobiographical movie, 8 Mile, playing a rapper from Detroit who defends gay men and pulls himself up by his vocal cords to escape wage-slave trailerdom. The movie's implicit premise is one that our public figures rarely acknowledge: that a poor white...
...next, enabling companies to know more about customers' needs and to zero in on the characteristics that distinguish the customers they want from those they do not. A credit-card company using a system designed by Teradata, a division of NCR, found that customers who fill out applications in pencil rather than pen are more likely to default. A major hotel chain discovered that guests who opted for X-rated flicks spent more money and were less likely to make demands on the hotel staff, according to privacy consultant Larry Ponemon. These low-maintenance customers were rewarded with special frequent...
...fact that Day 25 Natalie also has gills, are ignored. Instead, HRL is taking the abortion debate out of fact and rationality and into the distorted realm of manipulation. This is an attempt to give the qualities of a six year-old to a fetus no bigger than a pencil point in order to intimidate...
This year posters supporting Chopra appeared before the start of the campaign, and “Rohit” was scrawled in red pencil on signs throughout the Yard. Chopra’s campaign denied responsibility and no culprit has been found...