Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful speaker of the California assembly, Brown had agonized over which of three designer suits to wear to his swearing in. He finally decided to have Polaroids taken to see which suit would photograph better. The winner: a $2,600 single-breasted charcoal-gray Brioni with a brown pencil stripe. Haberdasher Wilkes Bashford, a longtime Brown outfitter, provided the final, Caesarean touch at a preinauguration party: a wreath of laurel. "I take my job pretty seriously," said Bashford, "and I missed one accessory." The ebullient Brown...
...voting, he raised a similar problem. Was the campus literate enough for on-line voting? How could we persuade the students, and especially the administration, that this was not only an interesting and innovative project, but that it was actually a significant improvement over the old system of dependable pencil and paper...
...know of these women who put lipstick on before talking to a man on the phone. She tells us of her editor-in-chief, "the morning after her red-faced, old New York husband's sudden death, she came to the office and sat at her desk, a red pencil in hand. Nobody interrupted her; we knew she was holding a wake in what was more surely her home than the big apartment on upper Fifth Avenue in which, we still believed, her house keeper ironed her stockings every morning...
First, there are a few crayoned or markered pictures of her holding beakers. Then she pulls out a sheet of paper with a pencil drawing of a beaker with huge stars surrounding...
True enough, the academics were less than rigorous at the American College, and I found myself becoming incredibly lax. I prepared for tutorials by sharpening my pencil, and I studied for exams the morning before, all of which made the transition to Harvard bumpy at first, But good Study habits are retrievable, I found, even if they are shocked into reuse. It was more the social scene that seemed like a cold shower: my new classmates didn't seem to have time simply tohang...