Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface of the reinforced concrete is intentionally left unfinished for texture, though it is not as rough and pitted as the façades of the buildings in the Indian provincial capital that Le Corbusier built at Chandigarh. Interior pipes are not only exposed but accented in green paint, like streaks of emerald against the white walls. Even the heating machinery stands exposed throughout the building, often recalling the boiler room of a ship...
...Fearful of potential inroads by such synthetic juices as General Foods' Tang, they have been experimenting with dried citrus crystals that can be mixed with water to make juice, are now selling them to the Armed Forces. Growers are also turning out a line of citrus byproducts, including paint bases refined from rind...
...dying (or being given loftier names) are those made infamous by educationists-bait casting, ballroom dancing, bridge playing. The University of Miami has dropped its water-skiing course, and various Texas schools are being pressured to wash out radio listening, horseback riding, art education ("where they teach teachers to paint like children"), and something called "Enriching the Later Years...
...parade last week at the Manhattan gallery of Cordier & Ekstrom were half a dozen Baj generals, joined by other adroit spoofs in cloth, glass, paint and wood...
...uniformed in camouflage colors, their swollen chests decorated with real ribbons, braid and buttons. (The eyes are real watch faces.) The backgrounds, like those of most of his works, are remnants of fancy brocade, scraps of mattress ticking. He uses felt for faces, slopping on features with paint; sometimes the mouths have shards of glass for teeth, bits of lace for noses...