Word: paint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faded dowager of a city," cabled TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who accompanied the Congressmen on their tour. "The old elegance and grace are still there in the wide, tree-lined boulevards and the colonial-era buildings, but the place is badly in need of some paint, some renewal, some energy. The city is calm, quiet and green, but also poor, drab and dull. Whatever improvement in living standard there has been, if any, has not been dramatic. At night, Hanoi reverts to a kind of overgrown country village. Except for an occasional bicycle or a strolling policeman...
...Paint their names on a solid oak door and they could be a Wall Street law firm: Monteith & Rand. Put them on a busy street and they would scarcely be noticed: John Monteith, 29, looks like a cheery ad salesman; Suzanne Rand, 28, looks like a Cybill Shepherd with facial expressions. But drop them on a stage-any stage anywhere-and Monteith & Rand are the funniest, most inventive comedy team to come along in years, recalling the days of Nichols...
Supermodel Margaux Hemingway can spot a good makeup job-even in the valley of the Amazon. "I'd rather be made up with this than with mascara and all," she joked about the berry paint used by the local Makiritare Indians. Margaux and her father Jack Hemingway, eldest son of Ernest and an ex-stockbroker, spent 15 days in Venezuela to co-star in an upcoming ABC documentary about the people and wildlife in the jungle. "I was the first white woman in the Indian camp," she says. "They wanted to touch my breasts to prove I wasn...
...payment voucher showed that a contractor applied two coats of paint to 63,400 sq. ft. of stairwells in the GSA's Washington headquarters, even though the area involved measured only 35,000 sq. ft. at best and was never actually painted. Six weeks later the contractor billed the GSA for applying 257,000 sq. ft. of plaster to the same stairwells. Reports TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski: "The staircase still looks grimy...
...Springsteen leaps into an audience, playing with them, strutting and joking, he cuts up like a star. Yet he also cracks self-deprecating jokes during performances and just recently defaced his own billboard above Sunset Strip with a can of spray paint. His myths are in his music, not in his life. The Jersey shore he sings about is becoming universal territory, and his mentions of Asbury Park are greeted with home-town cheers everywhere. But he remains wary of celebrity, recalling, "When I was a kid, what mattered to me more than the performers was the power...