Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preservation of the Beauties of France denounced it; a large hardware firm refused to sell it locks or hinges, for fear of tarnishing the firm's name. But the experts knew better. "Any architect who does not find this building beautiful," said Gropius, "had better lay down his pencil...
...girl timidly raised her hand: "It's smoother than a pencil...
...right, you're thinking!" cried the professor. Then she rattled into a discourse on the "readiness crayon," which "is to be used only-only on unlined paper . . . if your principal and the people in positions of leadership give you such materials . . . Then you move on to pencil. There are three primary pencils with different circumferences...
...Transit II-A satellite, launched June 22, still floating 400 miles in space. The bits and pieces have been identified as a de-spin weight, about the size of two clenched fists, dangling at the end of an 8^½ft. braided cable a little thinner than a pencil. Hardly visible to the eye at 100 yds., its electrical properties make it easily spotted by radar at 400 miles...
Spots on the Surface. Children produce compositions by placing paper over coins and rubbing the paper with a pencil; Ernst has used the same technique, jrot-tage, to inspire him. But whatever he takes an impression of-perhaps the sinuous grain of a piece of wood-is merely a ''starting point, a surface with some spots on it on which the imagination can play...