Word: paint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smell of wet paint wafts through the house on a tree-lined street on Chicago's North Side. Marena McPherson, 37, chose a peach tint for the nursery: a gender-neutral color. But the paint had a will of its own and dried a blushing shade of pink. Ah well, no time to worry about that. With the baby due in less than a month, there are too many other concerns. Like choosing a name, furnishing the baby's room, reading up on infant care and attending childbirth classes. Above all, McPherson must tackle the overriding problem that now confronts...
...asymmetrical ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within a flaming triangle, bracketed by scratched asymmetrical bars top and bottom, placed over a regular field of tiny squares and beneath an action-painting slew of paint drips. Instead of hokey chaos, it is jam-packed, allusive, improbably coherent...
...Barron: born East Orange, N.J., 1930; graduated Susquehanna University, 1951, degree in sociology; 1951-53, child-welfare work; 1953-55, U.S. Navy officer; 1955, marriage to U.S. Marine; 1963, art course for military wives while stationed in France; 1963-74, moving, moving, moving, mother of four children, trying to paint and cook and sew and clean house until one day, as she was working in oils, the buzzer went off on the dryer and a light bulb went on in her head. Lint...
...Good paint-and-body man makes more...
Pausing at the wreckage of an An-26, General Ghulam Farouq, Khost's Afghan military commander, pointed out that the "passenger plane" was downed three months ago by a U.S.-made Stinger ground-to-air missile. Though the twisted, charred remains retained a coat of green-gray camouflage paint and prominent military markings, the official line was that the craft was a civilian flight ferrying women and children to Kabul for medical treatment. In all, Afghan officials said, 36 civilians died in the attack. The rebels claim the flight carried military personnel and supplies...