Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body language in a single inflection of line was extraordinary, and can only have come from the combination of an unflagging interest in human behavior and sharp reductive power. But he was about as compassionate as a rattlesnake. Lautrec's attitude to the lower classes he chose to paint was dominated by his instinct, as an aristocratic French male, for keeping a certain distance from them and seeing them from above -- or at least, from a spot well to the side of their lives. His work does not "identify," as the cliche goes, with the folk at the Moulin Rouge...
...natural, milk-based paint turned sour and the stench drove the Berkeley councillor out of her home three months ago. Despite scrubbing and repainting, the house still smelled like old socks, and Skinner and her daughter are rooming with friends...
...really knocked you over," concurs paint distributor Eugene Dunlap...
...says the problem was not the paint but the painter, who should have known better: The paint had gone bad in the can before it ever hit the wall...
Skinner, an avid and now somewhat embarrassed environmentalist who did the indoor decorating job herself with a friend, says the mildly rancid smell of the paint got worse after it was applied during the Thanks-giving holidays...