Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once they told me about how a pencil was dropped over Sanders' balcony, right onto the head of an unsuspecting TF. I realized I was missing out; small classes were worthwhile, but I had to experience the apparent laugh-a-minute that was the Harvard lecture course...
...actors were not so goofily earnest in their delivery that real concentration on what they say is almost impossible. Is E!, on the other hand, affording viewers easy laughs? Certainly. Each day the fake O.J. (Stephen Eskridge; likeness: excellent) seems to get better at fiddling with his pencil and gazing intensely at the goings-on. When the faux Los Angeles Police Department criminologist Collin Yamauchi (Charlie Minn) said "phenylethylene test," it seemed funnier than any bit on Mad TV. Who needs cameras in the courtroom...
...Johns dreamed of painting a large American flag, and the next morning he got up and began to do so. He would play with the flag motif for several decades more, rendering the Stars and Stripes in wax encaustic paint on newspaper collage, in oil on canvas, in bronze, pencil and lithography. His fascination with it came, in part, from his very nuanced and ironic feelings about the function of art, particularly in America and especially after Abstract Expressionism...
...elected, truth be told, today is not such an exciting day for me. I will not be heading off to the polls at all. In fact, I voted over a month ago. In the comfort of my dorm room, I filled out my absentee ballot with a number two pencil, overwhelmed by the anti-climax of my first presidential vote. The local Baltimore races were equally uninspiring, since I am not quite close enough to home follow the issues well, so I made some uninformed guesses. (Then again, Cambridge is not enough of a home to me that I would...
Time Warner has also promised analysts it will save $300 million by consolidating the two companies and exploiting other "revenue opportunities." Almost all the initial pain will be suffered by Turner's gang in Atlanta, where 1,000 layoffs are expected. The company plans to apply a sharper pencil to its capital expenditures in all divisions, demanding higher returns...