Word: pencilling
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...RIGHT AWAY we slip through the present's thin veneer and are submerged in the whole history of an object--in this case, a simple pencil. The entirety of one of the earliest of Nabokov's brief chapters is devoted to illustrating the past visible in that anonymous pencil, from the grinding of its graphite and the felling of the pine for its case to the final implement, all in a discovered second of perception...
...Trotsky was a grand old man of the revolution who lived inside his closely guarded compound dictating memos and manifestoes and reading newspapers and magazines for news of the world outside. (In one scene of the movie he good-naturedly marks up a copy of TIME with a red pencil.) Not only is the fire virtually gone from Burton's Trotsky, it is impossible to see how it could ever have been kindled...
...blocks south of the Common on a beeline, a 19-story highrise Holiday Inn has begun to germinate. After four years of constant disputes with neighborhood and environmental groups concerned with the building's impact on traffic and skyline the owners. Cambridge Planners Trust, have decided to erect the pencil thin structure and are now preparing its foundation...
...audience..." Retracing the path of the material, Iker recalled that he had originally entrusted it to a campaign aide for delivery to Western Union. When Iker protested to Shriver staffers, they checked into the matter and discovered that a middle-aged woman volunteer for McGovern had wielded a partisan pencil on Iker's file before she delivered it for transmission. She was promptly dismissed. "She was overzealous and naive," said the candidate's Washington press chief, Roger Twohey, "and terribly misguided as to what would help...
...most popular items. The national campaign, which is still going on, has drawn more than 1.6 million requests and cost Hunt-Wesson $83,000 for new trees. Similar regional promotions have been run by Sun Oil of Philadelphia, Elanco Products Co., an Indianapolis agri-chemical firm, Columbia Pen & Pencil Co. of New Hyde Park, N.Y., and Forkner Publishing Co. of Ridgewood, N.J. Beyond its immediate success, the program indicates that businessmen and naturalists could well work together in easing other ecological problems while benefiting themselves and the public...