Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antipathy to Italian baroque. But in his favorite areas, particularly the 19th century, an exquisitely sure taste has been at work. One would have to go some distance before finding drawings as good as Cézanne's big study of a card player, in which the pencil strokes endow every plane of flesh and fold of cloth with the crystalline solidity of gray limestone; or Daumier's brace of lawyers, whispering together like upholstered vultures...
...single sentence. Self-confident to the point of arrogance, often curt, Will gives the impression of a man uninclined to suffer gools, gladly or otherwise. He answers questions in a monotone, seldom showing even a hint of emotion, except when he emphasizes a point by tapping a pencil on the desk in front...
...John Birch Society has been more successful than George Wallace (at least for the Society's approximately 75,000 members) at evoking the horrors of Big Government, or maybe it has just been more graphic. Instead of referring vaguely to pointy-headed pencil-pushers on the Potomac, the Birchers never miss the chance in their literature to say that endless waves of rules and regulations, paperwork, and forms to fill out are tentacles of central government reaching out to clasp Americans in warm, dark totalitarianism...
...Fenway frank. He was also appropriately dressed in a Bosox red sweater and navy blue pants. He did withstand the temptation to get the other items being sold, which ranged from buttons with a picture of the gold dust twins (Lynn and Rice) to a World Series pen and pencil...
...flamboyant career-as a pencil manufacturer in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, whisky dealer, art collector and oil magnate in the U.S.-Ar-mand Hammer has probably never had a worse week. First, the 77-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. pleaded guilty in a Washington court to a charge of making three il legal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Then Hammer's oil firm accused the Libyan government of holding 520 of its employees as hostages in a dispute that has turned Occidental's investment in Libya, once considered Hammer...