Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without a guide. As you drive up Canton's main street-People's Way-you are hit by what has become China's graffiti. Every inch of just about every building is covered with posters, as if naughty children had been let loose with paint and brushes. Swarms of people gather around government-printed posters that show the downcast faces of men who have been executed for antirevolutionary activity. Other posters attack Chiang Kaishek, Lyndon Johnson and Mao's archrival, President Liu Shao-chi; some attack Mao himself. Posters are put up and ripped down...
What startled the casual observer was not exactly Ringo; it was some thing a good bit farther out. It was the wire, paint, and papier-mache mock-up that Scarfe had put together for last week's TIME cover. The rest of the boys - George, Paul and John - were crammed into the Jag's back seat, and Scarfe was delivering them to TIME'S office on New Bond Street. There they were set up just as they were photographed for the cover, and put on display in a main floor window. They have been stopping crowds ever...
...parking lot at the five and dime. The answer is to add a homey little touch-up. Tony Martin's Rolls has a special $1,000-plus finish called "pearl metallic," but it is really ground-up fish scales. The late Marie Macdonald had platinum-dust paint on her Caddy, but Elvis Presley has diamond dust on his. For further easy identification, Presley's car sports a yacht-style rear-seat lounge, portholes, gold lame drapes, gold curtains, gold mouton carpeting, gold-plated telephone and 24-carat hubcaps and tail pipes. The hubcaps on Ursula Andress...
Phenomenal Popularity. Where it went is into just about everything that is manufactured or grown. In various forms, including sulfuric acid, the nation's most widely used chemical, sulfur is used for such chores as tanning leather, cleaning steel, pigmenting paint, making plastic and paper. Mostly, the shortage is the result of sulfur's phenomenal popularity down on the farm. Its use as a fertilizer ingredient has doubled since 1961, and agricultural needs now command nearly half of total production...
...church and its adjacent convent were leveled by bombs and artillery shells, burying 35 nuns, four priests, and 4,000 civilian rebels under the wreckage. Today, newly roofed with copper that sparkles in the sun's autumn rays, the church is at last receiving its final coat of paint...