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With such transparent effects as pentagram scars drawn on with
pencil
crayon and werewolf transformations that simply dissolve from a pair of bare legs to a pair of hairy ones, this isn't exactly the most sophisticated movie, even for its time.
One of them, a psychotic with a stupid
pencil
moustache, pulls out a gun and starts shooting.
Although I don't recall much of the plot, and perhaps didn't even grasp it completely at the time, a few scenes are simply as etched in my brain: The scene where they struggle to repair the radio with graphite from a
pencil.
Why did it look like the card was signed in ink when Wagner asked to borrow a
pencil?
The best performance here is by James Finlayson: clean-shaven, but sporting an odd bit of lip-liner
pencil
that makes him look as if he's wearing Little Richard's moustache!
GSN killed potential long-term viewership of this show by filling the early episodes with butt cheek
pencil
breakers, nipple enhancement sellers and geriatric strippers.
I saw clips of the movie on the internet and I was amazed on how they were funny, especially the scene when Candy unintentionally almost destroys the entire police station while trying to find a
pencil
or when he hilariously fails his shooting test in the gun range.
The crook has a big face and a
pencil
thin mustache.
So you are in this movie-rental place with a horror section that is just miles wide and furlongs in length, and you are, just imagine, scanning the rows for anything that catches your rather jaded (maybe from too many low-budget or low-brow horror flicks, too much mockery, or stilted dialogue, too many effects or musical stings) eye in that special way that only a truly mongoloid flick can do--and what do you see? of course, a really chintzy colored
pencil
and pastel picture of this tree/man graft that has women trapped (mayhaps metaphorically) in his "roots," but the really bad part is the complete physiological inaccuracy of the picture (witness, in your mind's eye, the nipples of this bare-chested "evil" tree/man placed in the exact (okay, semi-exact) orthocenter of his pectoral muscles--just plain zaniness from look one!), and it has this tag on it that reads, "He does bad things to them...in the Garden!!" and what can you do or say (except fall in love with it on the spot and say "I love you," respectively associated, right there in the orchard of neon horror that is the movie rental place)--and then so imagine your heartbreak when you get home, undress it from its plastic case and discover to yourself the fact that it is completely: affectless, toneless, actionless, heartless, penniless, paceless, plotless, heartless, and, perhaps most horribly, humorless--you and your best bud cannot, for the glory that the world holds, come up with a single joke to combat the ceaseless waves of offense to your senses and sensibilities that this offers--not to mention devoid of a) evil and b)seeds of said evil...there are no effects: it features untold minutes of floral footage, which cause the actors to expire at completely surreal and random moments--with which occasional happening you can utterly sympathize...I went looking for a movie too bad to be believed, and I found it.
The image most people will retain of Friedman is the smiling, diminutive, unassuming professor holding up a
pencil
in front of the cameras in “Free to Choose” to illustrate the power of markets.
It took thousands of people all over the world to make this pencil, Friedman said – to mine the graphite, cut the wood, assemble the components, and market the final product.
More than 30 years later, there is an interesting coda to the
pencil
story (which in fact was based on an article by the economist Leonard E. Read).
A modern-day Friedman might want to ask how China has come to dominate the
pencil
industry, as it has so many others.
But the present-day
pencil
story would be incomplete without citing China’s state-owned firms, which made the initial investments in technology and labor training; lax forest management policies, which kept wood artificially cheap; generous export subsidies; and government intervention in currency markets, which gives Chinese producers a significant cost advantage.
Yet the tens of thousands of workers that
pencil
factories in China employ would most likely have remained poor farmers if the government had not given market forces a nudge to get the industry off the ground.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, used black
pencil
to fill in the patches not covered by his two hair transplants.
And those who do go to school face abysmal learning outcomes: Dorothy doesn’t have a book or
pencil
to her name, and she struggles to understand French, the language of instruction.
Williams, wrote a protest entitled “Made in Germany,” he began by recording his discomfort that the
pencil
he was using was a German product as well.
If you announce that you intend to balance the books over five years and
pencil
in a lot of spending cuts, consumers, relieved of their fears of future tax increases, will start spending more freely.
We vote every four or so years for candidates about whom we know little (and we do so in person, often with paper and pencil!).
That's it!' he said, and taking up his
pencil
he began drawing rapidly.
The German was already putting his hand to the pocket where he kept a notebook with a
pencil
in which he made all his calculations, but remembering that he was at dinner, and noticing Vronsky's cold look, he desisted.
They were portraits of great men of history who had spent their lives in perpetual devotion to a great human ideal: Thaddeus Kosciusko, the hero whose dying words had been Finis Poloniae; Markos Botzaris, for modern Greece the reincarnation of Sparta's King Leonidas; Daniel O'Connell, Ireland's defender; George Washington, founder of the American Union; Daniele Manin, the Italian patriot; Abraham Lincoln, dead from the bullet of a believer in slavery; and finally, that martyr for the redemption of the black race, John Brown, hanging from his gallows as Victor Hugo's
pencil
has so terrifyingly depicted.
I did a quick
pencil
calculation.
I overcame the horror that its appearance inspired in me, picked up a pencil, and began to sketch it.
He showed with pride in the sitting room two small
pencil
sketched by her that he had had framed in very large frames, and hung up against the wallpaper by long green cords.
As she made these reflections, Mathilde was tracing lines with a
pencil
at random on a page of her album.
K. was very embarrassed, although the deputy-director, of course, was not laughing at K.'s documents, which he knew nothing about, but at a joke he had just heard about the stock-exchange, a joke which needed an illustration if it was to be understood, and now the deputy-director leant over K.'s desk, took his
pencil
from his hand, and drew the illustration on the writing pad that K. had intended for his ideas about his case.
So he bent his head as if he'd been given an order and began slowly to move his
pencil
over the papers, now and then he would stop and stare at one of the figures.
Now, you get a bit of paper and write down, J., and you get the grocery catalogue, George, and somebody give me a bit of pencil, and then I'll make out a list."
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