Word: penned
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...blueprints in Yu’s factory are also inspired by her doodles. Those large graph-paper sheets, covered in small, intricate drawings are reminiscent of the pen and pencil work of Lee Bontecue, whose small drawings often gave rise to similar pieces...
...manage a three-class course load, and found that in class she could only “draw little ponies in my notebook and look at the clock.” She tried going to the Bureau of Study Council, where she learned “to click my pen under the table”, among other techniques, to improve focus...
...Villiers figured he could elbow past Le Pen as the extreme-right's new, more photogenic face, he was wrong. Swept back to center stage and his traditional role as the national Cassandra, Le Pen has found supporters flocking to him anew in the wake of the suburban Muslim riots of November, and two months of violent youth protests over labor reform this year. Able to claim he'd long denounced the mass immigration and bleeding heart permissiveness he has blamed the rioting and demonstrations on, Le Pen has been effective in mocking de Villiers as a calculating opportunist...
...Still, any extreme-right voters feeling flattered by the all attention being paid shouldn't celebrate just yet. Barring any renewed bursts of urban violence that could send masses of frightened conservatives into the National Front's camp, political analyst Dominique Reyni? says the triangular split between Le Pen, de Villiers and presidential frontrunner Sarkozy could actually hurt the right's prospects. If Le Pen and Sarkozy were to savage one another ahead of the first round of presidential voting, after all, it could lead embittered backers of whichever candidate doesn't make the run-off to withhold their votes...
...even longer run, however, it may be that the biggest loser in next year's voting, likely to be de Villiers, will be turn out to be in a good position for the next election, in 2011. "De Villiers strategy is that Le Pen drags Sarkozy down in 2006, before being forced to leave politics due to age," says Reyni?. "To de Villiers mind, that leaves him uncontested leader of the hard- and extreme-right, and with Sarkozy defeated as the standard-bearer of dejected mainstream conservatives." It's a long shot, of course, but de Villiers may not have...