Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While we do not endorse either candidate, we find the staff's treatment of John Silber unfair and irrelevant. True, Silber has clumsily offended groups whose support he desperately needs to win the governorship. But in its rush to paint Silber as a backwards racist, sexist and anti-Semite, the staff fails to recognize that Silber's gratuitous comments are nothing more than the unpleasant biproducts of his "straight-shooting" personality and his inexperience with the mass media...
...appearance and rank was not born with Titian; Leonardo, Botticelli, Durer and Van Eyck were all his elders, and in his youth he worked with Giorgione, the most shadowed and inward looking of Venetian quattrocento painters, on the fresco decorations of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Giorgione's ambition to paint people in the act of thinking, to invent signs for internal reflection as well as external show, was carried forward by Titian into works such as the Louvre's Man with a Glove...
...what happens in Henry & June? The main characters make urgent love, man to woman, woman to woman. They visit a whorehouse and watch prostitutes mime sex. They attend a dada Mardi Gras where nude women wear blue paint. But Henry & June is not a blue movie. Kaufman is a fastidious director; he bathes every love bout in soft focus, or covers it in lace, or reflects it in a goldfish bowl. It's not just that his intent is artistic, it's that his content is mild. Lesbian love, for example, was shown more graphically in Personal Best, Desert Hearts...
...organized teams of taggers who use sophisticated climbing gear to spray their signatures on overpasses or dodge high-speed traffic to emblazon murals on freeway center dividers. "They know their names will be up for months because the state department of transportation has to shut down the freeway to paint over the dividers," a harried official complained last week at a Los Angeles antigraffiti conference attended by representatives from 28 Western U.S. cities. Cost in Los Angeles alone of removal and such prevention measures as coating buildings with special paint: $28 million yearly...
California politicians, dismayed that retailers widely disregard a state law outlawing sales of aerosol paint cans to minors, are churning out new penalties for taggers. A measure that would revoke the driver's license of anyone caught writing a graffito has been sent to Governor George Deukmejian for signing. Another bill would require store owners to lock up millions of cans of spray paint to prevent shoplifting by taggers. But it is unlikely that such supply-side measures will quench the tagging urges of the Los Angeles spray-can artist known as Chaka and his competitor Ozone, who have left...