I will never forget when, after weeks of poems returned to me marked up in red and green ink, one came back with the comment "lovely".
Oscar's original message – "I west thinking in you, Have a nice day" – had been marked up with red pen, much like how a teacher would tackle a student's essay.
I will never forget when, after weeks of poems returned to me marked up in red and green ink, one came back with the comment "lovely". The word looked, to my eye, as astonished to be there as I was to see it.
Red Sourcebook juxtaposes the racist ethos of "redlining" practices against crisp HD footage of a Restoration Hardware design guide getting marked up in red Sharpie.
In another, retweeted nearly 700 times, Twitter user Anthony Lefevre claims to "catch" Podesta calling Islam "a threat to our future". Again, it's an email to Podesta … which isn't clear, given that most of these viral WikiLeaks screengrabs are cropped, highlighted and marked up with nonsensical red arrows.
Myriad charts and figures of the latest real estate transactions in Chinese metropolises flash across the laptop of Liu Chengcheng as he talks, but one magazine article sits conspicuously on his immaculate desk, marked up with bold red lines.
Once the image is ready, a bell rings and the image is marked up with a red cross.
Censorship, in its 21st-century form, isn't carried out by old men in hidden offices, marking up newspaper articles with red ink.
There, Addington was known as a powerhouse, a stickler who controlled access to Cheney and marked up others' memos in red felt-tipped pen, returning the memos for rewrites that would make them sharper — and more protective of executive power.
Then, an insight: my friend explained he'd been marking up his students' writing assignments with the customary red pen.
