Word: dotted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MATT MAUPIN--OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND YOURS, the big electric sign at Jeff Wyler Auto Mall flashes once a minute. At the top of every hour, the local oldies radio station, WGRR, airs a booming jingle: "Joining you in all our prayers for Matt Maupin." Incongruous messages dot the strip malls along busy Route 32, which bisects Clermont County. PRAY FOR MATT MAUPIN AND FAMILY LARGE CHEESE $5.99, says the sign outside Snappy Tomato Pizza...
Then there were Dali's phenomenal dot paintings of the late '50s and early '60s: large-scale, intricate fields of enlarged Benday dots, those minute circles of ink that make up a newspaper or magazine photograph. In Portrait of My Dead Brother, an imaginary portrait of the real brother who died a few months before Dali was born, the dots mutate into a bird emerging from his head and ranks of soldiers at his chin. Images of struggle and flight, they match Dali's effort to come to terms with a ghostly brother whose name he was given. Then there...
...Soon she will be joined by others from Tawila. Once a bustling caravan stop, Tawila is now a ghost town, the vast majority of its 55,000 inhabitants having fled. They dot the road to Al Fashir, on donkey and on foot, desperate to cover the 40 miles of desert scrub before their food runs out or they are attacked. Those that remain are too old or sick or poor to leave, and food is running short...
...countries he visited was converted root and branch to Christianity. He died without ever realizing his dream of reaching mainland China. And in India, Xavier is infamous as the man who introduced the Inquisition. The visible manifestation of his legacy today is mixed; St. Francis Xavier schools and churches dot his route from southern India to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, but so do Xavier furniture warehouses, bus companies and even, on a beach in northern Goa, Xavier's Rum Pub. The one institution he did build himself, St. Paul's College...
...what you're after is a gift that lasts, try magiccabin.com for "heirloom quality" dolls, toys and crafts, like this Crochet Critter, $25, or an adorable red polka-dot...