Word: paint
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Atkinson says the two of them were living together at the time, but maintaining separate apartments, in deference to conservative local ideas of professorial ethics. When they decided to marry, Clinton bought a house, which his army of friends descended on to paint, inside and out, against the deadline of their marriage day. Atkinson, who was there, says it was a marriage all the friends saw as a merging of high talents. "I know brighter people singly, but I do not know any married couple with their combined strengths." It was fascinating to his friends that Bill, with his reputation...
Appropriately, the book's opening essays by Alexander Cockurna and Mike Davis recreate the dizzying sensation of that approach by surveying the economy of the Downtown area. While perhaps a bit dry and statistical, these essays paint a fascinating portrait of a region filled almost exclusively with immigrants from Latin America and the Pacific Basin who work in sweatshop conditions and have virtually no political power...
Beyond moving furniture and changing the lighting and the paint, De Gennaro said, workers would make few structural changes to the Lamont space. All of the work, he said, could be completed in a month--and he hopes that month will be June of next year, in the interim between the 1993Commencement festivities and the summer schoolsession...
...tiny Moscow abode that he has called home since last December. The room has no electricity and no running water. A dented tin bread box and several empty jars serve as his kitchen, while a cardboard box doubles as chair and closet. The decor is Dickensian: bare, paint-chipped walls, splintering floorboards and windows caked with dirt. Apartments in the old Soviet Union were none too luxurious, but this is a big step down...
...year as a Weldian, I hadn't known. Sure, the paint was peeling a little and the water pressure was poor. Sure, I shivered in front of a space heater when the room grew freezing cold. But I always assumed that because Harvard gave me this room, it had to be adequate...