Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said WEIGHT AREA, a floor below the animal-sciences department, one found 16 volunteers dancing attention on two members of the international press corps while others poked around in a copy machine with a pencil flashlight...
...Atlantic, unanchored memories of diplomats, designers, doctors and teenagers. A postcard of the Statue of Liberty had become an interrupted souvenir, an image of the monument born in France that never made its way home. Out of a camera bag fished from the waste came a list in pencil, in what seemed to be a young girl's handwriting. Amy: light pink, size 8. Corry: dress. Steph: orange or hunter green--the plan for a spree in Paris, transformed into a haiku of loss. And somewhere lost in the waters too is an unuttered promise, a diamond ring to accompany...
...John Singer Sargent, the other main candidate. And Homer was not only big with the public; he exerted a huge influence on younger painters. Robert Henri and the other realists of the Ashcan School embraced him as a role model--the virile eye, always staring at reality over the pencil. "The big strong thing," said Henri, thinking of Homer's seascapes, "can only be the result of big strong seeing...
...guardians of 60 to 70 kids have joined the PTA. "Some of the children arrive at school not knowing their full name; they just know their nickname," says principal Ruby Greer, who has managed to improve test scores and attendance. "They don't know how to hold a pencil or a book. And it seems like you never catch...
...obvious culprit is the nature of the record keeping itself. Half of the Currier records would not be admissible in court, simply because some of the pencil-and-paper accounting fails to indicate where money had been paid. The choice to embezzle is always a crime, but crimes are easy to commit when there is little chance of detection...