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...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...
...example is the mopheads of the practicing choristers in Four Youths Singing, Watched by an Old Man, in which glints of white paper show through the dense tangle of pen and wash, providing the highlights within the hair. In such drawings, the balance between specific details like this and the more generalized effects -- the well-judged breadth of tonal washes that firm up the singing group, or the intricate set of quick dabs to give the bony structure of the old music teacher's face -- can still surprise you. Four hundred years after his birth, the Squinter remains as fresh...
...khakis (so comfortable), a cream-colored print tie decorated with nuclear radiation symbols (too cool) and a woman's fire-engine red felt jacked (isn't it marvelous?) Little Lord Fauntleroy meets Little Red Riding Hood. His accessories for the day include a plastic Jetsons wristwatch, a pink fluorescent pen and, of course, his sleek mud-brown cigarettes. "It's all about accessories," Thomas insists. Definitely put that in your article...
Ball parks do not determine who falls in love with the O's. The fiber of a Baltimore fan is distinct from the fiber of either of Harvard student or a Bostonian. And although I can't pen myself as either a Baltimore resident (I'm from Virginia) or as a typical baseball fan (I'm female), I'm nonetheless drawn to "Oriole Magic...
...that: surely the vastest low-income housing program the world has ever seen, eating up $1.4 billion of federal spending. But the prisons can be regarded as a mere extension of the IRS: Who would pay their taxes if the alternative were not the sadistic embrace of the federal pen? Some of our more disillusioned citizens, the kind who keep talk-radio buzzing, have already concluded that what we have going here is a giant extortion system: Send us money, the IRS demands every April, or be prepared to spend a lengthy sabbatical locked up with a serial killer...