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Word: pencils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast numbers of drawings done by Die Brucke (many of which are no longer extant) attest to the desire of these artists to make the pencil a sixth sense, an uncerebrated recording of their response to what they saw. Heckel's Reclining Woman (1913) exemplifies the spontaneous quality sought after; the carpenter's pencil defines the woman's body in uncompromising, strong lines, and shades the form into three-dimensionality with vibrating squiggles that are intended to be read as trails of the artist's pencil...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Chronicles of a Crossing | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...Houghton noticed a pen left lying on a table. Now it is universally known that pens are prohibited in Houghton, to the point of extinction: paranoid librarians would claim that potentially destructive annotations scribbled in a book's margins can be far more damaging in ink, than in pencil...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

This glimpse of prenatal life is an extraordinary technical feat by a West German obstetrician, Dr. Hans Frangenheim, who helped develop the pencil-thin telescopic optics, and a Washington, D.C., endoscopist, Dr. John L. Marlow, who did the actual photography in a West German hospital. TV viewers are not told that, unlike the babies of the three mothers, the embryos shown were doomed. Because of the experimental nature of the photography-and the possible risk it posed-it was done only in the wombs of women about to undergo abortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viewing Life Before Birth | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...level obscenity of expression. Its producers, besides featuring an R rating more prominently than is customary, are also warning parents that its language is probably too rough for most kids. That's all to the good. Better to be up front about the matter than to apply a censorious pencil to a script that derives considerable power not only from what its characters say but from how they say it?i.e., grossly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Icing the Puck | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...time, but me and the boys hardly ever get tired of it. Now, this year's shindig will be held just outside Hot Coffee, Mississippi. We'll be easy to find, but I'll tell you how to get there anyway. You got a pencil handy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Hello... Jimmy? | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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