Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arky. Lord said Noah, build me an arky arky...build it out of hickory barky barky..." The room was quiet and 40 pairs of eyes watched this 4'11" nine-year-old who wanted to lead a class of cool high school seniors in singing. Kathryn stopped waving her pencil and tapped her foot...
Cappella is waiting to die, but at the same time to be reborn. He can not bear to be released from the hospital even when he is healed, and he consequently reopens his wound with a yellow number 2 pencil. When he sneaks out of the hospital to wander the city streets, he carries with him a tragic note...
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...