Word: stencils
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...emblematic circles set in plane-geometry shapes like road signs. Their bright, unmixed colors are so unpainterly that his brush stroke cannot be detected, because, as he says, "impasto is visual indigestion." Usually they are ringed with inscriptions: phrases from Melville and Whitman, or commands in broken stencil type such as EAT, HUG, LOVE, DIE, or ERR. These curt verbs, he believes, represent the vocabulary of the American dream, the "optimistic, generous, and naive" philosophy of plenty that is often mistaken for all the philosophy that the U.S. lives...
...look real enough." Then one day, in a supermarket, he saw a stack of boxes used for shipping Brillo steel-wool pads. He was overcome with envy and a sense of beauty. So he had a carpenter make 120 Brillo-size boxes, and ordered a silk-screen stencil of the Brillo design. He stenciled it on all the boxes, just in time for his current show at Manhattan's Stable Gallery, where they are selling for $300 each...
Sleeping Goddess. But the Sick Crew's carryings-on form only the mundane, or Profane, surface of this weird chronicle. There is, underlying everything like a half-forgotten goddess in restive sleep, the matter of V. What, or who, is V.? A Crew member named Stencil, the son of a mysterious and long-dead operative...
...meeting, the Council decided to open its mimeograph facilities to all approved College organizations for a fee of one dollar per stencil...
...first homespun daily, which had seven names: Tanzim (Order), Kohsar (Mountain), Bagh-o-Bahar (Garden in Spring), Qand (Sweetness), Nara-e-Haq (Voice of Truth), Zamana (Times) and Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound to create history in the field of journalism." But then, Quetta's weird weeklies had already, in a sense, done that...