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...trying to fit his bucolic vision into the urban nightmare around him. Lynch says Eraserhead sprang fully formed from nights in that "crime- ridden" city. "My original image was of a man's head bouncing on the ground, being picked up by a boy and taken to a pencil factory. I don't know where it came from." Some movie folk didn't know where Eraserhead was going either; it was twice rejected by the New York Film Festival. Could it have been the picture's grim gray palette that put the festival off? Or the man with seared skin...
...announcing the charges, U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney contended that upper management forced underlings "to keep the aircraft in flight at all costs" at three major airports: John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia in New York City and Hartsfield International in Atlanta. Many charges involve an illegal practice known as pencil whipping, or signing off on work that has not been performed. Mechanics allegedly failed to perform maintenance on cockpit gauges, landing gear, radar and fuel systems. While no accidents resulted from the neglected work, "thousands of innocent passengers may have been put at risk every day," Attorney General Dick Thornburgh...
Near midnight, the last guests leave, and Bob Praeger, a friend visiting from California, turns to White. "Ed, you were fabulous! Those stories you told, my God! I just can't believe there wasn't someone at the table with pencil and paper taking it all down." Bob is in Providence tracking down a letter for a book he is writing on General George Custer. One story leads to another; one letter leads to 300 others. It seems that Bob has all these letters, which he wants to sell, from a "male writer who," he explains, "has signed every...
Some may question the necessity of the Undergraduate Council or any other group planning our fun. Don't kid yourselves. We need organization to have fun. We need to be able to whip out our appointment books and pencil in "FUN--9:51 p.m. to 12:37 a.m." We need to be able to calculate the optimal factor allocation of work and play in order to achieve maximum efficiency...
Considering our need for organization, wouldn't it be easier just to pencil in a whole weekend for a Spring Fling...