Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precisely sketched in an ordinary lead pencil on large sheets of heavy paper, colored with dark brown and rust-colored washes, Lasansky's "Nazi Drawings" begin with images of bloated officers clothed in uniforms that could be either surplices or straitjackets, wearing tooth-studded half-helmets that could well be the skulls of their victims. No event is detailed; no face recognizable: Lasansky relies for his effects on the evocation of an essentially nameless evil...
Sometimes she plunges into little things. One day not long ago, quite unwittingly, she scheduled six separate appointments for 2 p.m., broke all of them, scheduled three others?and then forgot she had any at all. "It is necessary," sighs her secretary, "to keep one's appointment calendar in pencil." Sometimes she plunges into big things. For a while, the big thing was pacifism. In 1961, she plunged militantly into Britain's ban-the-bomb movement, was arrested four times during demonstrations, stood up before a rally in Castro-style battle dress and sang a Cuban revolutionary song. Sometimes Vanessa...
Though Waterman's founder, L. E. Waterman, developed the first practical fountain pen in 1884, the company no longer makes them. U.S. ballpoint-pen sales, however, today nearly match those of lead pencils. By 1970, Adler insists, the ballpoint pen will be mightier than the pencil...
People unaccustomed to writing have taken pencil in hand to carve smudgy letters of praise to the Courier. The comments echo those of a graying man sitting on a barrel at a gas station in Bessemer one summer afternoon: "That's a good paper. It's easy to read...
...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...