Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional tempera of a benign Winston Churchill, the "Man of the Half Century" (Jan. 2, 1950), to an atmospheric oil of a saturnine King Faisal, the Man of the Year (Jan. 6, 1975), by Bob Peak. Anwar Sadat's head is perched on sphinxlike paws in a pencil-and-ink sketch by Isadore Seltzer (May 17, 1971), while Peter Max produced a comic mixed-media collage for our "Is Prince Charles Necessary?" cover (June 27, 1969). The brooding poet Robert Lowell is given a crayoned zigzag crown of laurels by Sidney Nolan (June 2, 1967), while Boris Artzybasheff painted...
...first side of "3/4 Time" starts with a better nostalgia song than "Crustacean"'s "I'm an old man, I'd probably get sore/Cause they don't dance like Carmen no more." The song begins, "I wish I had a pencil thin mustach," and goes on to seance up a bevy of 20th century culture ghosts, like Ricky Ricardo two-tone jackets, autographed pictures of Andy Levine Dick Clark's Bandstand, "Going off to college to get a little knowledge,/when all I really want is to learn how to score." It ends with "Brylcream, a little...
...Patti Smith is lounging in bed at Howard Johnson Motor Hotel in Kenmore Square. She's wearing a "Rastafarian" t-shirt. Her pencil thin arms fly out of the round stove holes of the too big t-shirt as she talks to some Mr. Jones journalists wearing bow ties...
...their phone lines more and more to gain access to everything from their checking accounts to computers and consumer services. A single glass fiber can now be made to carry up to 672 one-way conversations simultaneously. This means that eight fibers, a bundle no thicker than a pencil lead, could do the job now being done by a 3-in. telephone cable...
...lives far from urban civilization. The late '60s rural communes persist in Vermont New Hampshire, California, Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere. Many city-bred farmers have discovered that Dwight Eisenhower (scarcely a guru) was right when he remarked that farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield...