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Another goal of the Iowa program is to combat what the institute calls the "battered writer syndrome," i.e., student papers that are slashed with red pencil in the margins-awk for awkward phrase, dangle for dangling participles and modifiers-without any comments on substance. Says Iowa's David Hamilton: "Once you and the writer agree on what he is trying to say, then you can come to agreement about how to put it into form...
...enjoyed two kinds of training the most; firearms and "defensive tactics." I learned how to take a gun away from a man and to tear off his trigger finger into the bargain. I learned to kill a man with no more than a pencil; to maim; to blind...
...National Press Club--the capitol's branch of Alcoholics Anonymous--knows what he drinks. For Bakshian, it's been a long trip up from copy boy at U.S. News and World Report to "White House insider." He lumbers across the lounge--grey herringbone, white shirt with maroon navy pencil-thin tie, grey flannels--a figure that any Young Republican could look up to. As he talks--fast, clipped tones that emerge from somewhere under his Groucho Marx mustache--Bakshian switches back and forth from cigar to definitive statement to bottle of Bock's Beer...
...weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They prefer to excise it from the head, where...
...Ahhh Jeff, we've got a few boxes of six-inch gaskets for Long Island. Send Marty out will ya?" a voice said over the dispatcher's radio. The dispatcher poked a pencil into Marty. He rocked back to the floor, grabbed his tin and a piece of paper, and ambled out of the trailer. "Yew comin' too boy?" he said to me with a harkening drawl. "Awright...