Word: scrawl
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...through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow-up heads. They proceed to demolish everything in he room, and at the height of the carnage they scrawl foot-high obscenities on the walls, some never before presented on the U.S. stage. It is an allegory on U.S. inner violence, a sign that Americans hate the world they have made...
...complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons in a shaky backhand scrawl, "Do you remember...
...from Betty Grable's legs, John Barrymore's profile, Shirley Temple's seven-year-old scrawl ("Love to the World") and his ex-Wife Ava Gardner's feet, Singer Frank Sinatra, 49, knelt, did the old Hollywood salaam and planted his palms in the wet concrete beside the rococo Grauman's Chinese Theater. Then Frank struck a Jolsonesque pose for Daughters Nancy and Tina and about 3,000 faithful who turned up for the messy rites, some of them dangling from the limbs of trees...
...stains the Tuaregs' skins a glossy, metallic blue. The Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl obscenities on lonely desert rocks. Lukewarm Moslems, the Tuaregs twist the usual Islamic custom by insisting that their men go veiled while the women's faces remain bare. It is not a bad idea, since most Tuareg women are handsome-at least before marriage. Obesity is a sign...
...matter what the pact failed to solve, it received an almost universally enthusiastic reception for what it did do. By week's end, ambassadors of about 40 nations had rushed to scrawl their names on copies of the treaty in Moscow, London and Washington. Some governments were so inspired that they had their representatives sign in all three capitals. More than 100 of the world's 117 sovereign nations are expected to sign eventually-even though most of them know perfectly well they may never have a nuclear device to test or call their own. Most notable holdouts...