Word: paint
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...monthly for private dinners in Detroit, overseeing their joint-research programs under a consortium called USCAR, which invests $300 million annually (including $75 million in federal grants) in a range of projects including advanced batteries for electric vehicles, lightweight composite materials for better fuel economy, and environmental improvements on paint and fuel emissions and recyclable parts. No project is more ambitious than the agreement, announced in October, to share with the U.S. government the 10- year, $1 billion development costs of new ultralight, low-pollution vehicles...
...also). In any case, the current surge is occurring most strongly in the industries most sensitive to the cost of borrowing: autos, housing, construction generally. An upturn there tends to boost sales of other products: the steel, rubber and glass going into cars; refrigerators, washing machines, furniture and paint needed to equip and decorate new or resold houses...
...found in the Adams House Tunnels. But that is art, not graffiti, you might protest, and you would be right. Our reference is not to the three-year old murals on the walls, but to their more recent alterations. An unidentified artiste has used silver spray paint and a fine eye to modify some of the inscriptions so that "Hierarchy Presupposes Identity" now reads "Hierarchy Be Identity." "Be Cool" and "Power to the People 'Ya Gotta Believe" are entirely new shimmering wall-art maxims. Inquiries about the additions around Adams House have met with furtive glances and pregnant pauses. Those...
...American Studies, at his house. He has no gas for his car, and his neighborhood is blacked out. We enter another world when we sit down with him and Monreal in the gilded elegance of Havana's Ferminia Restaurant -- dollars only. Wolfing down real meat, the two thirtysomething economists paint glowing pictures of a wondrous second-generation Marxism where quasi-private enterprise pays for the nation's broad social safety...
...others. Its tacky sub-pop imagery, its dazed passive-aggressive stance, its fixation on teenage weltschmerz, all entitle it to be seen as a mini-trend, linking up with the wider American cult of dumb popular therapeutics. In the 1980s, American neo-Expressionist artists shoved their excremental clods of paint at us with the self-evident pleasure that eight-year-olds take in dirty words. Patheticism is the conceptual version of this: no paint, just the words. Poo- poo, caca, and screw you, Daddy...