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Made in New Jersey: General Pencil sketches out the future with old-school tool
This week’s Made in New jersey spotlights General Pencil Company which has been making pencils for nearly 140 years with a ...
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Indian-origin kid in Toronto makes special sketch for ‘Priya Pradhan Mantri’ as PM Modi begins his 3-nation visit
While the parents speak, the kid is seen holding what appears to be a pencil sketch of PM Modi. “The visit provides an opportunity to build upon the historical bonds and expand our ties in the ...
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Mike Myers Got Real About The ‘Depression’ He’d Feel If His SNL Sketches Got Cut, And How Conan O’Brien Helped Him Change On Set
I’m the opposite. Dress rehearsal bums me out and I get nervous. Then if the sketch gets in, I’m like, ‘OK!’ I’m way more psyched that it got in, that I’m going to be in the show this ...
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Colin Jost, Marcello Hernandez, Sarah Sherman and Mike Myers on ‘SNL50’ Surprises, the Pros and Cons of Dress Rehearsal and Going ‘Into a Depression’ Over Cut Sketches
And this year meant a lot of work. Not only did the sketch show produce a 20-episode 50th season with A-list hosts, but they also tackled four specials that brought in more than 50 million total ...
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Roald Dahl sketches sell for almost £24,000 at auction
Original drawings by Roald Dahl which were found in an envelope have sold for almost £24,000. The collection of sketches were produced by Dahl in black ball point pen for his memoir, Boy (1984 ...
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Amy Poehler admits she ‘misappropriated’ when reflecting on controversial SNL sketches
Poehler only featured once in the “In Memoriam” montage, popping up in a 2004 sketch in which Ben Affleck is seen berating a character played by Fred Armisen who appears to be disabled.
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Pencil Maker Sticks With Plan to Shift Sourcing Away From China
A production line at the Musgrave Pencil Co. in Tennessee, shown in 2016. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News) Scott Johnson, president of the Musgrave Pencil Co. in Shelbyville, Tenn., was ready to ...
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Virginia Man Faces 12 Months in Jail, $2,500 Fine for Drawing a Crosswalk With Chalk
After the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, denied requests to paint crosswalk lines at an intersection popular among pedestrians, Kevin Cox, a retired crossing guard, decided to take matters ...
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Roald Dahl's original sketches to be auctioned
Roald Dahl's original sketches, created for his memoir, will be sold at auction after being found in an envelope. Dahl, who was born in the Cardiff suburb of Llandaff, produced the sketches in ...
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Original Roald Dahl sketches sell for £24,000
Original sketches done by children's author Roald Dahl for his memoir have sold for nearly £24,000. Dahl, who was born in Llandaff, Cardiff, produced the sketches in black ballpoint pen for the ...
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Questions and Answers on Special Drawing Rights
Another possibility could be to channel SDRs to support lending by multilateral development banks. The Special Drawing Right (SDR) allocation is not a loan from the IMF. When the IMF allocates SDRs, ...