Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will probably live in Bracciano, outside Rome. But there are offers from several U.S. universities and an invitation to Japan in the fall. He frankly revels in the attention. There have been too many years when his books were such frequent flops that his publishers made him adopt a pen name. What he really seems to be seeking is the ideal retreat in which to write those 20 books still in his head. It might yet be found in the green and rainy climate he left. · Martha Duffy
...playing a trick on Mr. Zuckerman, who owns the farm where Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton the rat, the cows, and the geese live. She knows that "people are very gullible... easily fooled," so she spins the words "SOME PIG" into her web, in the doorway above Wilbur's pen. Zuckerman is fooled, and decides that "a miracle has happened and a sign has occurred here on earth, right on our farm, and we have no ordinary pig." The local minister explains the miracle in his next sermon. "The words on the spider web proved that human beings must always...
...Canaletto, Guardi, a handful of others. Giovanni-Battista Tiepolo, in fact, seems in retrospect to have been the last Italian artist formed in the heroic mold. A protean figure of bewildering facility and adaptability, he was the link between high historical painting and rococo elegance, able to invest a pen drawing with as much tension and airy scale as a painted ceiling. But generally the 18th century seemed to be Anglo-French territory: Italy's long moment of cultural supremacy had gone, the locus of energy shifted...
...have had a riot writing the script. It's wild and fanciful, unfettered by plot or logic. The dialogue is a great mish-mash of half-digested morsels from Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Coleridge, Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles and whatever else was floating through Kardon's consciousness as he held pen in hand. The mysterious phrase that serves as title pops up again and again, meaning nothing in particular but continually teasing the audience...
...Saber series is the work not of an Arab but of a French writer who goes under the pen name Yousef Khader. Explaining his anonymity in a letter to the Algerian newspaper El Moujhaid, the author said: "These days it is extremely dangerous to denounce the criminal aims of imperialists and Zionists. I cannot reveal my true identity for security reasons...