Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is an out-of-work former superpower leader to do? MIKHAIL GORBACHEV is taking a cue from Richard Nixon and picking up a pen. A very special pen. Gorbachev has signed on as a journalist with the prestigious Italian daily La Stampa, which plans to publish 10 of his global ruminations a year. His first piece, a defense of socialism, was picked up by the New York Times this week. Gorbachev added a historical flourish as he signed his new employment contract in Moscow. Pausing dramatically, he noted that he had once used the same pen to sign...
Boredom and fanatical politics spur some to take up a pen. But often graffiti is a way to say something of which one might otherwisebe ashamed...
...more recent reader disagrees with the indictment. "We can't all be coordinated, can we?" he writes underneath in blue pen...
Others sidestep the quicksand of emotional angst entirely. "I spent my summer as a life-guard," writes a peppy purple pen just below these outpourings, "and it was really...
...wrinkled paper is yellow with age, like some ancient parchment. The letterhead is partly torn off. The text--scribbled with an old-style fountain pen so that the end of each sentence is much fainter than its beginning--is hard to make out. The date reads September...