Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Santa Barbara police department has an awesome new weapon in its arsenal: Blue Persuasion. To encourage contact with the community along State Street, the town's main drag, officers now cruise in a customized police sedan that sports a hip metallic blue paint job, murals, mag wheels and a booming stereo...
Within the U.S.S.R. many powerful figures who wound up opposing the coup were initially noncommittal, stayed conspicuously out of sight or played highly ambiguous roles. Alexander Dzasokhov, a secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, tried to paint the party as a resolute opponent of the conspirators. "From the very beginning of the coup," he said, the committee secretariat "kept trying to get in touch with the state Emergency Committee and demanded that they see Gorbachev." In fact, though, Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan, says the Central Committee on Monday secretly urged local party organizations to support...
...tight that many scientific institutions are finding it difficult to maintain the equipment they have, much less buy new instruments. At Kitt Peak in Arizona, the structure of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories' solar telescope was beginning to corrode because astronomers, strapped for funds, had put off painting it. This year they could wait no longer, and instead of buying a new, badly needed $100,000 infrared detector, they put the available money into a paint job. The choice, while necessary, depresses Sidney Wolff, director of NOAO. Although the infrared detector was developed in the U.S., she says, "European observatories...
...immediately identify the name Richard Hess, but you will recognize his work. Since 1977 Dick has painted 14 covers for the magazine. Among the best known are his portrait of Deng Xiaoping, who was our Man of the Year in 1979, and his gatefold showing a cross section of Americans for our 1987 special issue on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. A native of Royal Oak, Mich., Dick attended the University of Michigan and, improbably, began his career working for a company that manufactured paint-by-number sets. After many years as a graphic designer and an art director...
...Disney has a reputation among architects (as among filmmakers) for tightfistedness and micromanagement. On each project Eisner is brought in five times to review the plans, approving masonry textures, paint colors and light fixtures. One reason the chairman says he meddles more in the design of a hotel than he does, for instance, in the production of The Marrying Man is that "movies go away, but buildings stand as monuments to your bad taste." Plus he thinks he's good at inspiring architects. "I know how to make creative people see that something is not as good as they...