Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio is a small, skylit shed set amid four tranquil acres of Hertfordshire farm land, an hour north of London. Inside, workbenches are covered with old bones, sticks, water-smoothed pebbles, shells from the English coast and the Riviera sands. On the walls are curious drawings in pencil or in sallow greens, yellows and reds-disturbing, faceless human forms composed of lines, curves, shadows and holes...
Bank vaults refused to lock. Long queues of customers logjammed the aisles of supermarkets behind silent cash registers, while clerks frantically tried to add up their checks with old-fashioned pencil and paper. When police ordered evacuation of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, 200 patients easily felt their way out of the pitch-black building, leading their helpless doctors and nurses...
...Blue Pencil. Almost from the start, the Soviet censors reneged on the government's promise to pass all copy unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was ruled off the international air in Moscow" for "tampering" with Khrushchev's lines in his famed kitchen debate with Nixon at the American exhibition-a charge that the U.S. State Department promptly rejected...
...Germans were also very nasty about anti-handling booby traps. One type of fuse was supersensitized after the bomb hit the ground, with a switch so delicate that it could operate if the bomb shell was tapped with a pencil. Hartley's men learned to outwit some mechanisms by injecting a quick-setting plastic. If the bomb is too difficult to defuse, they drill holes in its casing and melt out the explosive with live steam...
...enormous respect for learning, and in every photography studio, the appropriate props were on hand. "When the fellow posed you he said, 'How about a pair of eyeglasses?' You acted a bit coy, but you were very grateful to the man, especially when he also put a pencil in your hand...