Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stubs pokes his head into the hospital room of five-year-old Dorothy. "I hope I'm not bothering you," he says before entering. At her bedside, he pulls several crumpled sheets of legal paper from his worn leather bag, digs for a pencil stub and begins his examination...
Although most people may like to leave the University's financial wizardry to money managers and pencil pushers, with student services on the line, it's time for students to prick up their ears...
...Corbusier: A Marriage of Contours is an arresting exhibit, interesting for its unique context, as well as the quality of the artwork shown. The collection of drawings, in pastel, watercolor and pencil, was assembled by Le Corbusier himself with the goal of representing the breadth and spirit of his pictorial work. This goal is admirably realized and results in an exhibit which is both dynamic and unified. Almost without exception, each individual piece is worthy of close inspection. But Marriage of Contours also displays a temporal progression in the style of this vibrant artist. The exhibit is an education...
...trying to fit his bucolic vision into the urban nightmare around him. Lynch says Eraserhead sprang fully formed from nights in that "crime- ridden" city. "My original image was of a man's head bouncing on the ground, being picked up by a boy and taken to a pencil factory. I don't know where it came from." Some movie folk didn't know where Eraserhead was going either; it was twice rejected by the New York Film Festival. Could it have been the picture's grim gray palette that put the festival off? Or the man with seared skin...
...announcing the charges, U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney contended that upper management forced underlings "to keep the aircraft in flight at all costs" at three major airports: John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia in New York City and Hartsfield International in Atlanta. Many charges involve an illegal practice known as pencil whipping, or signing off on work that has not been performed. Mechanics allegedly failed to perform maintenance on cockpit gauges, landing gear, radar and fuel systems. While no accidents resulted from the neglected work, "thousands of innocent passengers may have been put at risk every day," Attorney General Dick Thornburgh...