Word: pencilers
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...took one look around and decided it was time to stop providing free entertainment. So he scrawled a check, watched the stubby pencil OK the releases (which had to be mailed to the Registry, with $1 each). Then he strode down the hall and out the door...
...year-old British model has made herself over so that she looks almost feminine. She has traded her body stocking and "all those flattening boyish things" for a real girl's bra, now wears more or less normal makeup instead of marking her eyes with heavy, horizontal pencil lines. She is letting her hair grow "as long as it'll go, down to me feet." In Manhattan to begin a promotion tour for Yardiev cosmetics, she just laughed when asked whether her fiancé-manager, Justin de Villeneuve, had given her a diamond ring yet. Said Twiggy, with...
Critical Cascade. Sheed, who is married and has three children, does his writing in a studio on Manhattan's West Side. With one of his cherished Hoyo de Monterey cigars always within reach, he scribbles in longhand with a No. 2 pencil. He half-consciously removes his clothes as he works. Precisely why he does that is a mystery but, whatever the reason, it enables him to produce a cascade of critical pieces in addition to his fiction. He is book editor of Commonweal, film critic for Esquire, and a freelance reviewer for at least half a dozen other...
...most drama, events shape the character. In Hunger, nothing happens-and in that vacuum occurs the conflict between the writer's mind and the world's will. At first he is euphoric. But with steady rejection and growing poverty, he becomes like his pencil, inexorably worn away until only a stub remains. Though there is an abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable...
...horizon, looking for all the world like guards against an invading fleet of Chinese gunboats. Rex now lies supine on a chaise longue, and somewhere I have managed to ask a question: How does it feel to be on the other side of the interviewer's pencil...