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...university's laboratories and clinics to produce his masterpiece. His key tool was the culdoscope, invented in 1942 by Dr. Albert Decker, who is now with New York's Fertility Research Foundation. The instrument is a 12-in.-long tube, about the diameter of a pencil, containing lenses and its own light source. It can be inserted into the body to provide microscopic views of the internal organs and processes, and can serve as a long lens for a camera. It has proved invaluable for determining some of the reasons for female infertility. Introduced through the vagina...
...Kooning is a traditional kind of draftsman, and his work with pencil or crayon always pursues an active, symbiotic relationship with his paintings. Drawing explores and refines but does not quite fix an inventory of shapes that eventually find their way onto the canvas. It is a way of keeping the choices open by profuse addition. Now this process of working from drawings into paintings was not much to the fore in abstract expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended...
...paradoxes about De Kooning the draftsman is that his pencil, in movement, is always describing contour, even though the shapes one infers from the contours are rarely closed or fixed. His early pencil portrait drawings from 1940-41, done 15 years after he smuggled himself into America, are manifestly homages to Ingres-or, more precisely, to Ingres as filtered through Picasso. But that sense of exact and probing contour was not dissipated by De Kooning's progressive moves toward abstraction. Instead, it was reinforced. The line in Abstraction, circa 1945, knows exactly where it is going and what...
...South Carolina who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses. But while Buzhardt saw fit to delete every "goddam," "Jesus Christ" and other examples of presidential irreverence, he left intact a good many four, five, ten-and twelve-letter specimens of Anglo-Saxon earthiness. These fell before Nixon's own blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray III, then acting FBI chief, as a "thick-necked mick." According...
...hours, pencil in teeth, thumbing through sheaves of coffee-stained bills spread over a kitchen table, one concludes that he could be a victim of some inept tax advisory preparers." The St. Louis Globe Democrat thought that "it is entirely reasonable to assume that the IRS would have dealt more generously with someone less vulnerable than the President." The Wall Street Journal, while siding with Nixon's taxmen in believing that the deductions on the papers could be defended, observed that "the nation has a right to expect better of Presidents" than Nixon's efforts to cut every conceivable...