Word: pencilers
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...glazed stare that some viewers have seen too often-when he played Lawrence of Arabia, Lord Jim, and Becket's king. Omar Sharif, an Egyptian by birth, is German only by permission of the makeup and wardrobe departments, which have vainly tried to Teutonize him with severe pencil lines around the mouth and a crisp military tunic. Only Donald Pleasence, playing one of the generals who stays one jump ahead of the Sharif, infuses his role with a fresh mixture of blood and irony...
What images? Among those currently proffered to the public for contemplation: a series of six, large, identically white pictures by Walter de Maria differing only in that on one the artist has written in pencil the word Sky, on another River, on a third Mountain. Four packing-case-sized and identical boxes by Robert Morris, painted white and spaced at equal intervals on the floor. A row of what appears to be eight truncated shoeboxes, the work of James Seawright, each containing a variant of the figure eight in sometimes flashing lights, while every now and then a taped voice...
...cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams is brightly lit by hidden sodium-vapor lamps that shine on electric eyes staring up through pencil-sized holes in the bottom beam...
Normally buried beneath a mound of pencil shavings and paper clips in the recesses of a desk drawer, the little black and white pamphlet has furnished a Harvard composer with the storyline for a suitably baroque oratorio...
...hush did not fall over Winthrop House Dining Room as Frank stabbed blindly at the top sheet. Sometimes his pencil landed on a name, in which case its owner became one of the chosen 120. Sometimes the Kennedy Institute's special assistant for undergraduate affairs missed the paper entirely. "I don't understand," said a member of the audience. "Neither do I," responded Frank, and stabbed again...