Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kareem was not the only ominous giant in the game. On dreary airport mornings, when soldiers and civilians customarily brush by one another, the common exchanges foul everyone's mood...
...turkey blinds he has fashioned of logs and brush, Baker settles in to wait. He leans against a persimmon tree, and with as little motion as possible he reads and turns the pages of a State Department briefing . book stamped SECRET. Methodically, Baker underlines almost every sentence. "It's how I learn," he explains. "That and taking almost verbatim notes when someone is briefing me. 'Proper preparation prevents poor performance': one of my father's maxims. That's how you gain control. I'm on Africa now," he says. "We'll pick up and move when...
...refreshment one feels in going from a reproduction of a well-known painting to its original is lacking, because his paintings are all based on silk-screen reproduction of photographic images. Whether flat and grainy, as in the '60s, or worked up with a creamy slather of broad-brush pigment, as in the '70s and '80s, they are essentially simulations of the act of painting, types of visual packaging...
...these veterans, along with the rest of America, will have to wonder what Bush was thinking when he made the appointment. Is he, too, so anti-communist that he is willing to brush over anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi pasts? Or does he condone such thinking in his Administration as long as it remains buried in the obscure new Department of Veterans Affairs, safely out of public view...
...admissions officer looked over her application, which was crammed with high grades, solid recommendations and documented achievements. "Seems to me the only thing you haven't done is paint your room Duke blue," she mused, alluding to the school color. Soon thereafter the photo arrived -- of the smiling applicant, brush in hand, apparently painting her bedroom a deep lapis hue. Needless to say, Tangora is now a Duke student...