Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Armed with a belching paint machine and handfuls of tiny crushed glass beads, Wayne A. Gentry and his nephew Richard D. Leite venture into the streets of Cambridge every night...
They are nocturnal artists, private contractors who are making the streets safe for motorists by painting all the city's crosswalks, zebra lines and stop bars with white paint and shiny glass beads. But they are also first-hand witnesses to the city's nightly escapades...
Gentry, 24, and Leite, 19, are employed by Expert Lines, a private company commissioned by the Cambridge Traffic Department to paint the city's street markings twice a year...
Although they paint between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. to avoid blocking traffic, the noise from their paint machine disturbs people in certain residential areas...
Once, a Cambridge resident even called the police because of the noise from the paint machine, said Gentry...