Word: pencils
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LIFESTYLE: Gay-family cruises; manga for girls; pencil-thin suits...
...about neurotic eight-year-old film buffs, their dysfunctional families and their alcoholic soccer coach--relies heavily on improvisation to create true-to-life dialogue; executive producer Loren Bouchard recalls how voice actress Melissa Bardin Galsky came up with an off-the-cuff line about how her character's pencil eraser smelled like strawberries. "Most of us," Bouchard says, "don't remember when we had erasers that came in food flavors...
...offseason conditioning workouts, he had the team’s fastest time in the pro agility test—a feat usually reserved for a running back or wide receiver. His show of raw ability and athleticism gave the coaching staff the confidence to pencil him in as the starting strong-side linebacker at the beginning of the year...
Remember Dungeons & Dragons, that game for anyone who was too smart for his own good in high school and didn't have a date on Friday night? Time was you needed a pencil, books of character information, a sturdy imagination, similarly afflicted friends and the ever-present 20-sided dice to play the game...
...can’t have a good time? Sure there is more that the College, with perhaps the pressure of the council, could do: extend party hours a little bit, maybe have a Brown-quality Springfest. But this is not the responsibility of a bunch of pencil-pushing council types and administration higher-ups—who, let’s face it, are the same people who were locked in a library for their undergraduate careers and think “getting out of hand” involves too much good sherry and a risqué ascot...