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...male faces is not an ephemeral number in a far away place; any of them could be thought of as a guy on any Thursday night out in the Square. That woman saying hello to mom and dad can easily be replaced by the one who kept dropping her pen waiting to sign up for aerobics. It is a matter of circumstance only...

Author: By Amy E. Dine, | Title: ROTC Teaches Patiotism | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

...squat pen rests...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Seamus Heaney's Poetry: Excavating His Irish Roots | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

...Ellis Island, about a mile off the lower tip of Manhattan. The distinguished British writer and advance man for the future wanted to see for himself how arrivals from the Old World were ushered into the new one. He found the process strangely unceremonious. "On they go, from this pen to that," he wrote, "pen by pen, towards a desk at a little metal wicket -- the gate of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Reopening The Gate of America | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...millimeter is about one twenty-fifth of an inch, or about the size of the very tip of a ballpoint pen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NASA Committee Finds Root of Hubble Trouble | 8/10/1990 | See Source »

...friend, a writer who tells his old mother that he's a waiter. You know the one about the waiter who tells everyone he's really a writer -- well, this is just the reverse. His mother doesn't really know, and he's quite famous. He writes under the pen name of Andrew Holleran. Have you ever heard of Dancer from the Dance? He's the most famous gay writer in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDMUND WHITE: Imagining Other Lives | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

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