Word: paint
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Just as a lot of actors think they can direct, a lot of parents think their two-year-olds can splatter paint as well as Jackson Pollock. But ED HARRIS can attest that neither task is as simple as it seems. The actor is making his directorial debut--and playing the lead role--in a film based on the abstract expressionist, a project that has consumed Harris for six years. "It became a personal project," says Harris, "and I didn't want to hand it over to anyone else to direct...
Anyone who thinks Christine Jean got rich by winning a Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992 should take a spin in her antiquated Renault. Most of the windows don't roll down; the passenger-side door opens only from the outside; and the paint is pocked with rust. But Jean doesn't care. All her $60,000 prize money went to Loire Vivante, the umbrella group she has headed since 1987. Its mission: blocking a gargantuan dam-building project that could have destroyed beautiful landscape and fragile ecosystems surrounding Europe's last wild river...
...time has not just been whitewashed, as Mfume says, it's also been redlined--divided into distinct white and minority (mostly black) 'hoods. Four years after Oprah Winfrey challenged Ross and Rachel to "get a black Friend," the most diverse group on NBC's Must-See comedies is the paint-colored men diving into the peacock logo at breaks, while UPN and the WB have a stable of black-cast comedies. Only a few sitcoms, like the WB's For Your Love and UPN's upcoming Grown Ups, are integrated...
...been assassinated by shadowy groups, some of whom were traced back the Intelligence Ministry. The political infighting has intensified in the prelude to next year?s election. Observers believe the sudden arrest of 13 Iranian Jews last month on charges of spying for Israel was a conservative attempt to paint Khatami into a difficult corner, while the ban on the liberal newspaper Salam, which sparked off the unprecedented six-day protest movement, was part of the mullahs? plan to stack the electoral deck in their own favor...
...inspired awe (I still grin when I look at similar setups). But I just wanted the CD player because I'd seen and used one, and I thought it was cooler than a tape player. I mean, really, any given CD looked more artistic than a cassette. It had paint already on it. The cover was art, sure, but when you opened the case, you found another work of beauty, either swirling and complex or elegantly simple, a new aesthetic by which to judge new albums. What's more, I could tell that tapes were passe. I wanted...