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...comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash. Ickes, almost alone in the West Wing, fought the scheme. Yet when he lost the argument, Ickes executed it to the letter, keeping fund raisers on schedule in memo after memo written in a tiny, pinched scrawl. Clinton has shooed away both men. But while Morris has begun his comeback, Ickes remains in limbo...
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 side of the page--single bluebook 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 extra five points if you can hack...
...WALL, FROM THE HEART: VOTIVE GRAFFITI AT GRACELAND On the 6-ft.-tall, 180-yd.-long limestone wall surrounding Graceland, visitors scrawl thousands of messages, usually in Magic Marker. Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, sketches parallels between two categories of pilgrims: visitors to Graceland and early Christian acolytes. "What was true of early sacred travel is true of Graceland today," he says. "People leave votive offerings behind and take away relics...
...short, our own inability scares us. In a few years, when computer capabilities no longer present obstacles to handling mass e-mailings, I wonder how many people will express such outrage or call for Ad Board action or scrawl stupid things on doors. By then, mass e-mailings will be just another daily nuisance of life. And no one will pin the blame on someone like Daniel Simon...
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...