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THAT'S the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...assembly line of dreams. Behind their tables, the idols scarcely speak or stir. "No time for personalizing" is the rule of the promoters, who keep the kids moving along like sad-eyed paratroopers. It's said that quick-draw artist Pete Rose averages two seconds a $15 scrawl. According to the Boston Globe, Ted Williams made $100,000 in one weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assembly Line of Dreams | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...shuttle. Across the tracks at the Blue Line stop, the woman on a temp poster had been spray painted to look like a snaggle-toothed devil; someone had even taken the trouble to climb over the third rail, draw in a penis by her mouth and scrawl, "Suck it baby." I hoped I wouldn't have totemp...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...after the coffee arrives, we trade drafts. My friend is writing a profile of Robert Coles; I have chosen "The China Lobby in American Life" as my topic. I grab a pen and scrawl nervously in the margins of her paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Is A State Of Mind | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

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