Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to a spokesperson for the Boston-based Phoenix Bay Construction Company, which is overseeing brickwork repairs, Harvard has engaged in only minor renovations in the past, including simple "paint-up" jobs...
...maybe it's just a small, exotic slice of humanity that has changed, the subspecies called celebrities. The decorous public figures in Penn's photographs have become Leibovitz's feral children. Buck naked, streaked with paint or hanging from trees, they sport through the pages of her book and across the walls of the International Center of Photography in New York City, where a retrospective of Leibovitz's work is on view through Dec. 1, before traveling across the U.S. and Europe...
...What (the government) is trying to say is that in order to win the war on drugs we have to paint all drugs as all bad," says Rick E. Doblin, co-author of an important Kennedy School of Government study released in May that revealed that many cancer specialists had recommended at least once that a patient break the law and smoke marijuana to counteract the effects of chemotherapy...
...tawny blond and blue surfaces of the seascapes, like Le Chenal de Gravelines: Petit-Fort-Philippe, 1890, mediate between solidity (the molecular structure of the skin of paint) and transparency in a way that is unique in 19th century painting, and as a result they can absorb and reward all the contemplation the eye can give them. The port, under its light-suffused spell, its unpeopled high-summer sleep, becomes a subject of reverie but not a fantasy, anchored in the real by such declarative touches as the iron bollard placed dead center in the foreground, yet located...
...list of things to do to cure boredom is pretty preposterous. Here are some things he says you should do instead of watching TV: learn to knit, learn to square dance, take up birdwatching, paint watercolors, learn to fly, visit a shut-in, be a tutor or write a letter. I'd rather watch a good "Brady Bunch" rerun...