Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LABI, in three years at TIME, has written about the schoolyard killings in Jonesboro, Ark., and the crash of Swiss Air Flight 111. In this week's American Scene, she weighs in on a brighter topic: the culture clash in a small city outside Los Angeles, where certain residents paint their homes in vivid yellows and pinks, to the distress of some of their neighbors. While she appreciated the change of topic, the trip wasn't so lighthearted as she anticipated. "I didn't know colors could provoke such strong emotions," she says. Labi, who is moving into...
...pack numbers about 15, clad in spandex and blue body paint. Traffic stops on JFK Street as they bound across, barking and snarling into the headlights. Then it's down Brattle Street, stopping once to catch their breath and bay at the moon...
HRSFA members concentrating in Folklore andMythology dreamed up the Wyld Hunt early in the1990s and imbued it with a mix of Celtic andGermanic traditions. The blue paint is meant tosimulate woad--the hallucinogenic paint used byCeltic Warriors to induce a battle frenzy(remember Braveheart...
...brutal world. When you're alone and surrounded by enemies, sometimes you have to kill the part of yourself that's human. Her eyes look older and wiser. The pain has made her into a hardened woman. She will never feel the same way about the smell of fresh paint. Or permanent markers...
Soaking wet with cold paint, the three of us--a trio of weary soldiers--make our way to the North End, in close proximity to the Boston Paintball. Munching on dainty pastries and pizza, I reflect upon our experience. I'm exhausted and oddly disturbed at how much I have enjoyed hurting other people. I consider the pain of bullets ricocheting off various body parts, of the grime I'll have to wash out of my jeans and sneakers, of the taste of paint in my mouth. Only someone crazy and sadistic would want to relive this experience...