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During a later illness, Ernst remembers, he stared at the wood flooring and ended up discovering a new painting technique that he called "frottage." He took paper and pencil, laid them over the textured surface, and scribbled away -as many a child has done over a penny on many a boring day. Allied to this was Ernst's use of paint sponged and knifed on a canvas, with the images it suggested later sharpened with a brush. Figure-Mythological Woman was produced in just such...
...complains a teacher at an inner city elementary school. "So far this year I've bought ten reams of paper myself. It's a matter of protecting your own sanity -when you see a kid without anything to do, you've got to get him a pencil and a piece of paper...
Lying gravely wounded in the intensive-care section of Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Mississippi Senator John Stennis signaled for a pad and pencil. Although a respirator mask covered his face, he scribbled a brief note to President Nixon, apologizing for his inability to serve as moderator at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington last week...
Like most pieces of art, either driven or stationary, the new cars have provoked a great deal of discussion. Paige's phallic "Dickmobile" is perhaps the most controversial. Built on a 1954 Hillman Minx chassis, the head of "The Dickmobile" is 18 gauge steel stretched over a pencil wire frame, while the body of the car is molded fiberglass. The entire vehicle is painted in various shades of pink, except the purple exhaust columns that run along the sides, and the rear of the car that is painted a pubic hair black. The plush interior of the car is upholstered...
...three classrooms, and at night about 80 students crowd onto the two-man benches to learn to read under four naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling. They are working people, as their rough hands and faded clothes attest. They are clearly still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them as though they might escape. Copying words from the blackboard, the students trace every letter with infinite pains, eyes darting from paper to board two or three times for each word, erasers gripped in the other hand ready to rub out any slip...