Word: ballpoints
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...pulled out a file and asked me questions about my columns, most of which centered on whether my parents still talk to me. Then he gave a dramatic reading of Maureen Dowd's New York Times column, which he'd gone over with a Highlighter, and used a ballpoint pen to mark down "Wow." He gave more wows to Dowd than Michael Douglas ever...
Alex O. Holcombe, the Harvard member of the research team, explains the findings by waving his ballpoint...
...than 50 entries in total, the women mention the art of autumn leaf placements--a "therapeutic activity, much like reading the books at Buck-A-Book"-- quote e.e. cummings `15, "To be thy lips is a sweet thing and small" and discuss everything in between. A neatly scrawled blue ballpoint hand offers sage advice, "You cannot change what has already past; but how you deal with the past is in your hands...
...because of the uniquely interactive tone of the bathroom dialogues that women find these scrawlings so attractive. For many, conversations between magenta and black ballpoint writings on the bathroom wall fill a void that pervades their daily existence. As one writer who described herself as a "high school girl" wrote aptly, "Thank you so much for this wall, it's nice to know that in a world that often makes me feel secluded, there are people out there I can talk...
...furs, coniferous wood, paper boxes, lithographs, cashmere sweaters, women's suits, dresses, skirts, bed linens, scissors, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, food grinders, windshield wipers, dolls, photographic equipment, chandeliers, glass Christmas ornaments, sweet biscuits, wafers, felt paper, plastic handbags, coffee or tea makers, electric toy trains, greeting cards, stoves and ballpoint pens...