Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life, a widowed Rubens abandoned his roles as diplomat and teacher, and settled down quietly with a second, younger wife, Helene Fourment. He said he fully intended to enjoy "the illicit pleasures of marriage." His sugary, mildly erotic Garden of Love, replete with cherubic angels and sparkling applications of paint, is a far cry from the violent and dramatic Prometheus. Illustrating an open-air party of fleshy, amorous aristocrats dressed in satin, Garden of Love is an obvious precursor of the eighteenth-century fete-champetre popularized by Rococco artists such as Watteau...
Flourescently-lit hallways branching off into rooms for cages are painted a pristine white--any chips or cracks in the paint would make the facility fail frequent inspections--and, once the facility is operational, no one will be able to enter except through a disinfecting "shower lock...
Lyle has been painting a picture of Jose and Kitty as monsters who ran their sons' lives in the tiniest detail, crushing any aspirations to independence by handing out cruel punishments for trivial offenses. Much worse, he testified, when he was seven, Jose "would be in the bathroom, and he'd put me on my knees. He'd guide me in all my movements, and I'd have oral sex with him." Also, "he used objects, a toothbrush, some sort of utensil brush . . . he'd take my pants off, lay me on the bed. He'd have a tube...
Lipkowitz said she noticed fault lines in a corner of her ceiling, which was repainted during the summer renovations. The paint then began cracking and falling from the ceiling in chunks. Since this first sighting two weeks ago, more cracks have appeared along one wall and a third fault line is devloping over...
...peeling paint is not the only problemGreenough residents have experienced during theirfirst three weeks on campus...