Word: penciled
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...model airplane. Stepping around a staffer who is painting a trompe l'oeil on a wall, he shows off his proudest creation?his fantasy studio. Tomes on anatomy and history crowd the shelves, a pterodactyl hovers overhead, desks spill over with tubes of paint, old postcards, a jar of pencil stubs. Copies of his sketches are tacked, unframed, all over the walls. Nothing is roped off. "I wanted to show the roots of inspiration, that feeling of something bursting in your chest," he says. Standing in this room and looking around, Miyazaki grows quiet: "I almost hate...
...visa, a foreign student must be accepted by an American college, then pass a cursory interview with a consular official. About 35% get rejected. But once foreign students get to the U.S., there is little attempt to track them. Remarkably, the INS still communicates with colleges via paper and pencil. That should have changed after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, in which the driver of the explosives-filled van was in the U.S. on an expired student visa. In 1995 Congress ordered the creation of a database of all foreign students; colleges would have to tell...
...really have to start by putting pencil to paper. Every time I start something from scratch, I have so many things that I’m working on—files and files of half-finished and unfinished poems—so I look at them. And then that sets something else off. I very rarely sit down in front of a blank piece of paper and say, “What shall I write about?” It’s something ongoing...
...could land a spot on the 5:05 p.m. train to Harvard Square. She got there just in time to take a little ABP break before heading to her two evening classes that would keep her cooped up in Sever Hall until 9:30 p.m. She then planned to pencil in a quick ice-cream break with “her Ollie”—her boyfriend—before heading home, where she would do homework and read until 3 a.m. And then the whole cycle would start over again...
Tanenhaus points out a skinny black bag with flourescent faux fur trim and says, “I was going to make this one a pencil case and someone commented that it seemed like it could hold a vibrator...