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...with the big-box stores. He knows he'll never beat Home Depot and Lowe's on prices for $100-plus power tools, so he stocks a minimal quantity. Instead, he targets weekend tinkerers who need repair and maintenance goods in a hurry, and he has bulked up on lawn and garden supplies and high-end paints, which are hot growth lines on which he can earn good profits...
Curious students and faculty members stopped by on their way to and from classes to peer at the large circle that had gathered on the lawn in front of the Science Center, where HIPJ had set up tables with anti-war petitions...
...Traveler life is an odd composite of Old World and McWorld. Like most other Travelers, Penn has a madonna statue on his lawn. Hisdaughter was 14 when she married her 20-year-old fiance--an arranged match, like "99%" of village marriages, he says. And like many other Travelers, Penn never made it past sixth grade. But he drives a muscular black pickup with tinted windows, and the Traveler women draw stares when they go into town, dolled up with layers of makeup and halos of hair...
...where the favorite soup is not wonton but borscht - brought by the city's East European immigrants in the early 1900s and now proudly made by countless Shanghai grandmas. After you finish your phad thai or tikka masala, head to Face's bar, which opens out to a sweeping lawn. Sit in the Ming-style chairs for a quiet drink on the veranda. House drinks include the Chinese Whisper (Cointreau, Midori and lemonade) or a frozen vodka-cassis cocktail called the Shanghai Blues. The real action, though, is in the cushioned front salon, where the jeunesse...
...both how we see and what effects color has on our feelings. And with the paintings of the Postimpressionists, in particular Van Gogh, color began to be freed from nature. Van Gogh exaggerated and distorted color to communicate his vision of the world. For example, in his Sunny Lawn in a Public Park (Arles) (1888) Van Gogh creates a secret garden by forgoing the use of color to suggest realistic depth. His subjective use of color was taken up by the next generation of painters including Matisse. With Matisse painting rediscovered primary color: red, blue, yellow; colors he put down...