Word: mural
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...year of festivities is set to begin this weekend at Harvard with the unveiling of a photographic mural and a day of conferences and celebration...
...centerpiece of the Silver Anniversary celebration is a travelling exhibit of an 8 by 17 foot mural, which features 200 historical photos, timelines, and lists of great female Ivy League athletes...
...Lake Placid, Florida, where Archbold is located, contains 27 lakes, and its main industries are citrus growing, ranching and the production of caladium flowers, a flower almost exclusive to the region. It is a town where art along the local supermarket wall can rivet visiting students' attention. The mural, which depicts a scene of cattle ranching, emits a loud mooing noise accompanied by sounds of stampeding cattle every few minutes...
John Sayles rightfully received props for his flowing, inter-generational mural of time, Lone Star. With the awkwardly titled Men With Guns (it amazingly both sounds like, and is, a bad translation), however, Sayles has turned a fundamentally disturbing subject matter fit for a sober documentary into the slow-motion romp of a Mr. Magoo social historian. Main character Dr. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) undergoes an overblown process of discovery in which we are invited to partake: nasty secret things happening and happen after civil strife. Again, no one can fault Sayles for noble motives, and obviously the story itself...
...most telling physical landmark of the restaurant, however, is the immense, brightly colored mural in the style of Diego Rivera which wraps around behind the bar and open kitchen. In it, merry people amuse themselves beneath strands of Spanish moss, dangling over the fancy wrought-iron balconies and balustrades of Southern gothic buildings. All drink and laugh profusely, and all are glaringly white. The image is a perfect metaphor for the cuisine. Magnolias strives to emulate New Orleans, but a piece of its heart will always be in New Canaan...