Word: scrawl
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...greater fun is for viewers to see how they are being fooled, to see the bamboozler bamboozled. Most of the products Horowitz tests pass with high marks-he estimates 75%-but the blood sport is watching the advertisers turn into bozos when Horowitz can't wipe the scrawl off the Sherwin-Williams paint job, when three dozen eggs (out of 14 dozen) don't survive a drive in a Renault and when eleven shoppers out of eleven pass over margarine for the high-priced spread...
...successful undertaking.' That she then thought I was a Mr. Binner, that the book had got (sic) confused in her mind with the whisky called Four Roses, that she addressed her letter to a street on which I had never lived, were, as I squinted at that spidery scrawl, matters of no consequence." The study revolves around Stein and Brinnin; Toklas has become the foil...
...rather thin one at that, one needs to remember that the '40s and early '50s saw the emergence of the last major artists that the School of Paris would produce. The show has a fine selection of Jean Dubuffet's work from that time, the scrawl-and-cow-flop portraits, subway figures and fat nudes that elicited reams of indignant protest from the guardians of le beau et le bien. Quite properly, Alberto Giacometti's wiry bronze isolates are given a room to themselves, and it is the most august room in the show. Yet there...
...legal pad. The HTU, which had in mind projects such as a flea market, asked all in attendance to put down their names. And everyone did, everyone except Erickson. He put down a name, but it wasn't his own; as far as anyone can make out, his scrawl read "K. Fredrickson." And there is no question about his address, which he lists clearly as 18 Banks St. There is no 18 Banks...
...groom himself had to put up with a little good-natured palace revolution. His brothers Andrew and Edward got hold of a dozen balloons emblazoned with the Prince of Wales emblem, borrowed lipstick from a lady-in-waiting to scrawl a JUST MARRIED sign, and got up the royal buggy so that Charles and Diana looked like a couple of nine-to-fivers heading for a week at Brighton...