Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, the Negro in the ghetto is showing a declining gratitude for visitations by white missionaries who sign up for temporary duty only, and who may be more interested in salving their own consciences than in solving a problem that cannot be cured by a coat of paint. The reception given New York's beautifying task force was generally cordial, but there were a few notable exceptions. "Why clean outside?" asked one resident. "All the badness is inside, and that will still be there tomorrow...
...sculpture: "You don't have to explore it. The information is given at once." To him, the appeal of felt is twofold: its shape depends on how it is draped. Secondly, felt comes naturally in heather, maroon and buff (Morris refuses to color his metal works, since paint creates "a second skin...
...Having participated in "The Thing in the Spring [April 26]" I am now absolutely certain that white people cannot hide a slum with a coat of paint-even if the suburbanites are the painters. The poor need low-cost housing-white America cannot paint that fact away...
Another worrisome problem, the apparent breaking away of two sheet-metal sections (photographed by highflying jets) early in the flight, was apparently solved when NASA investigators decided that the objects were probably thick sheets of paint that had not been properly bonded to Saturn's metal skin...
...cures for the common cancers, even the virtues of each of his four wives. Sometimes he is the little boy full of comic-strip fantasies about riding around in a red helicopter, taking on the whole might of the U.S. Air Force and of "corporation-land" by shooting paint at the enemy choppers. At other times he fancies himself an exiled princeling (though from what country defies the imagination...