Word: pencils
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...identifiable objects - steamboats, an ace of spades - can be identified amid a welter of enigmatic markings. Meanwhile Klee also expanded his experiments with an astonishing variety of materials, achieving exceptional nuances of texture, translucence and sheen. In addition to oil and watercolor, he worked with chalk, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, wax color, tempera, varnishes, gypsum, poster paints and colored paste. He used them, in varying combinations and often in several layers, on coarse paper, parchment, newsprint, cotton, linen, gauze, burlap, cardboard, plaster and plywood. Ever the master colorist, he conjured up an eerie, otherworldly radiance, as in Masks at Twilight...
...CITY OF SARDIS; APPROACHES IN GRAPHIC RECORDING. The historic architecture and landscape of Sardis—the capital of the Lydian kingdom in westsern Turkey—are presented. The drawings range from the oldest, hand-measured pencil and ink versions from the Age of Enlightenment (1750s) to the latest electronic and computerized technologies that are expanding the traditional aims of graphic recording. Through Nov. 16. Monday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders. Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street...
...Harvard’s outgoing FAS Registrar Arlene Becella—said yesterday that his tenure as registrar could see important changes in student services such as the course selection process. Most of these ideas—especially an anticipated move to online registration in place of the current pencil-and-paper system—will have to wait for all student records to be converted to a new database, he said...
...about to say? Deep in his 5,400-word speech was a single sentence that had already been the subject of considerable internal debate for nearly a year. It was a line that had launched a dozen memos, several diplomatic tugs of war and some mysterious, last-minute pencil editing. The line--"The British government has learned that...
...Though Iraq is mess right now, the U.S. does have a significant trump card in the country's divided political geography - a situation for which the Bush administration can thank the French (and the British). Iraq, like most of the nation-states conjured up with pencil and ruler on mapping tables in European capitals during the colonial era, comprises three distinct and often hostile ethnic groups. The Europeans did this to make such entities easier to rule from the outside and hobble their ability to unite against the colonial authorities. And the same dynamic may help the Americans...