Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portraits of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) were seen as being more than personal likenesses. They had a defining character. Ingres's period has coalesced around his art. In the first half of his life, when he was in Italy, the Mecca of the aspiring French painter, his pencil drawings caught the upper crust of foreigners there--the milords Anglais and their families on the Grand Tour, the French officials who ran Napoleon's kingdom in Italy, his fellow expatriate artists--with stylish brio and steely exactness. It is fascinating to see him shifting through different levels of notation...
...review books, which had been unavailable to earlier test-takers, gave little indication of what to expect, but she hoped a good night's sleep and a trip to Staples to buy an electric pencil sharpener would serve her well...
...Figure that her wheelchair is her legs. Would someone pick a person up and move them?" asked Lorraine Greiff, director of the Massachusetts Office on Disability. "You can't just take away someone's liberties by picking them up and treating them like they were a pencil that fell to the floor. Does that rise to the level of assault? I don't know, but I would say that it's as serious as pushing," she said...
...This mentality extends far beyond the terminals. We don't have time to make do with anything slower than a T-1 connection. We can live virtual lives. Something tells me undergrads weren't pulling out their planners 25 years ago to pencil in Sunday brunch with their roommates. We hear the casualties of the computer age during exam time--with those who can no longer think sequentially and long for a word processor to help them organize their thoughts. Never mind love--there's no time for anything. Off to the gym, off to coffee, off to call...
...pimps and the audience voyeurs, gazing raptly at one primal scene after another? You'll hoot at the zany antics of Steam Heat and weep over the sweet sentimentality of Mr. Bojangles, but the picture that will stay in your mind longest is the sinister image of a pencil-thin dancer dressed in black, arms held close to his body, with a bowler hat pulled low over his eyes so that nobody can see who he really...