Word: etching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...accusations, based on the testimony of five survivors of Treblinka, etch a ghastly portrait of one of the bloodier cogs in the Nazi machinery: a man who forced Jewish laborers to have sex with corpses and relished the cries of his victims as they were stabbed, shot and gassed. Of the 870,000 Jews transported to the camp, fewer than 50 are believed to have survived...
...beginning, athletes play for the moment, for the sheer unmeditated joy of doing it. In mid-career they play for the money. At the twilight of fitness, they play for the memories, seeking one last accomplishment to etch their names in history. For the two dominant tennis players of the decade past, Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova, all the conceivable goals of a career have narrowed to one: the All-England Lawn Tennis championship, or Wimbledon, which starts this week and is the sport's premier tournament precisely because it is the most historic...
...kitchen counter at 36 Irving St. is an Etch-a-Sketch. On the grey face above the two knobs are not the usual convoluted stick men, shaky square house, or the even more usual quasigeometrical mess of random shapes and wiggles. Glaring from the screen is a squat, intricate medieval demon named Baphomet, who has a cross in his crotch, a flaming eye in his right hand and a nasty leer on his toothy face. Baphomet used to be regarded as the guardian of the gates of hell, and here, on the kitchen counter, in the squiggly confines...
Mark has an amazing talent with the Etch-a-Sketch. For a while, he did a different one every day. Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. More demons, some of them on motorcycles. Scenes from the Arabian Nights. When he went back to Cairo to visit his fiancee, after finishing his thesis, Mark said goodbye to the house with a pyramid landscape, replete with all three pyramids, a blazing sunset, a camel and himself waving goodbye in the distance. The round knobs just don't look capable...
Winningest Products. Good things came in small sizes: Chicken McNuggets, Chrysler minivans, 3M's Post-it notes. Health was hot: Nike Air shoes, oat bran and Diet Coke. But old reliables stole the show: Waring blenders, fountain pens, Etch A Sketches, convertibles, suspenders and condoms...