Word: penned
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...Blankets" plays a major part in the complex yet simple experience of the book. Thompson combines the detail of illustration with the dynamism of cartoons in his wonderful black and white drawings. Using both pen and brush he moves effortlessly from realism to expressionism as when demons shoot out of Craig's mouth during a purging of his childhood drawings. The layouts carry through this playful variety with every conceivable kind of design. The comforting hum of a basement boiler wraps around a room and hugs it with warmth. Later when Craig departs from Raina, in a typically poignant image...
Gates called Newman “sort of an ‘Ask Mr. Wizard’ for black history, a pen-and-ink Google for blackness, long before Google was conceived...
...network that never ended." If your kid needed a photo with the President, Oliver made it happen. He kept in touch with fund raisers by conference call and e-mail and rallied them for the midterm election, writing gracious thank-you notes in his trademark blue felt-tip pen. After Congress doubled the gift limit to $2,000 a pop, Oliver helped institute a higher tier of fund raiser: the Rangers, who each raise $200,000 or more...
...writer on contemporary events and aspire to immortality, you had better have something special in your pen. George Orwell, whose centenary was celebrated last week, had honesty and clarity of expression. Combined, they enabled a man who was almost always sick to produce a body of work - essays, reviews, novels like Animal Farm and 1984 - that will illumine the next generation's understanding of the world as much as it did those of the past...
...friend about her birthday party; her friends; her new dog, Potter Gryffindor Hoch (the first name after Harry's surname and the middle one after the dormitory house in which he lives at school). She seemed to be getting stronger, brighter, in her excitement about her new pen pal. Jo wrote back at length, typing from her home in Scotland as the windows rattled in the January gales. "It's a bit spooky," she wrote one night. "I sleep at the top of the house (like Ron) and when it's stormy like tonight I keep waking up wondering what...