Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole bank of television-type screens. With the flick of a switch he can call up the image of all the elements of his newspapers-wire service copy, a reporter's typescript, carefully catalogued material from the morgue. Wielding a tiny electronic stylus instead of a pencil, he changes words, makes erasures, shifts paragraphs. Every move, every judgment is recorded in the console's electronic memory. The job done, the editor presses a button and the corrected copy jumps into view, set and spaced just as it will appear in print. Photographs are chosen in the same manner...
Though interpretations will vary with individual tax examiners, and Congress may jiggle the rules later, it looks as if almost any businessman with a sharp pencil, a touch of imagination and the patience to keep detailed records can deduct fairly freely. But few businessmen who cater to the expense-account trade seemed to be overjoyed. "It certainly doesn't do anything for me," grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major...
...m.p.h. and in an oval that ranged from 109 miles to 139 miles above the earth, he dined on roast beef and chicken, manually operated the controls of his spacecraft. From the capsule, live television images were periodically flashed to Soviet viewers. Bykovsky waved his logbook, let his pencil and other objects float in the cabin to demonstrate weightlessness. On his fourth orbit, the cosmonaut talked directly to Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Not yet a full-fledged party member, Bykovsky said: "I want to be a Communist, a member of our great Leninist party...
Behind his desk, of course, Father is a child playing at Big Deal. Designed to delight his foolish heart is an I Am an Executive pencil box, with gold-tone paper clips, candy pills, key to the executive washroom, tension reducers, plus pencils, for only $3.95. To help him make quick decisions so that he can get home early, there is a swiveled silver dollar mounted on a paperweight, for mature heads-or-tails judgment...
...zanne shunned even still life as overly contrived nature and sought out the chaotic, uncultivated thickets and hillsides of Provence's virgin countryside. Among his most stunning works are views of the barren rock walls of an abandoned quarry that are so economically suggested by a few pencil lines and scattered smears of color that they presage modern abstractions. "Nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her." Cézanne wrote. Hour after hour, facing the warm vistas of Provence, his eye sounded the depths of nature, and, dipping his brush into his wet colors...