Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST IMAGES CAST an antic light on Operation Restore Hope. As Navy SEALs waded ashore in the moonlight, their faces blackened with camouflage paint, their bodies braced for confrontation, they were met and blinded by the glare of television lights. But the farcical aspect of the first live military landing soon faded as the troops fanned out from their beachhead into the anarchic city of Mogadishu. By daylight, the airport was secured, the city port occupied, and for the first time in two years, most of the firepower belonged to friendlies. Though it had barely begun, the U.S. operation...
Many of the cuts, such as Move with Me, Twisted and Red Paint, show Cherry in a soul-searching mood, singing and rapping almost mystically ("Move with me, I'm strong enough/ To be weak in your arms"). The sparse, moody arrangements, combining synthesizer strings, record-turntable scratches and occasional guitar, bass and piano riffs, give her hip-hop, rock and jazz fusion a delightfully surreal ambience...
...European farmers marched on the seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Contending that trade agreements would slash a source of their livelihoods, government subsidies, the farmers burned effigies of the principal U.S. and European trade negotiators. A smaller, satellite protest pelted police with a fusillade of cobblestones, paint and eggs -- the last presumably a product of those beloved subsidies...
...gallery, specializing in post-modernity and free deliver. Within its diminutive space, a few day tourists were examining the presented works with quizzical glances; in search of stability, I did the same. My chosen spectacle was a scalding, large picture of the sea. Huge splashes of thick blue paint covered the canvas, rearing out in small pinnacles, and returning into piquant troughs. My expression of bewilderment drew the shop owner--a frail foetus by appearance, in fact a middle-aged man--who collected his phlegm with a unappealing gurgle...
...they cheered--oh did they cheer. Waves, coordinated taunts, face paint and banners were a part of every game. Hell, for the big games, they even had to call out the riot police. But it was fun. And effective...