Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with most professional sports circuits, miniature golf has its share--and then some--of colorful characters. "One could compile a set of photographs from this year's national tournament that would paint a pretty sad picture of man," Gilchrist says. "From the tournament director's idea of cool entertainment--some drunk guy with a microphone standing under a Baskin Robbins canopy--to the assorted collection of people the tournament attracts, each trip definitely leaves me with a handful of stories...
...much for ultimate frisbee. Paintball, an indoor war game featuring, not surprisingly, balls of paint for bullets, has become the sport of choice for corporate retreats, bachelor (and bachelorette) parties, birthdays, anniversaries, celebrations and the occasional paramilitary get-together. For seven years, Boston Paintball has provided the citizens of Boston with paintguns, protective gear and a warehouse-like battlefield...
...want to die," she quietly moans in a brief and uncharacteristic moment of weakness. The sweet-faced receptionist assures us in a gruff Boston accent, "I never ever heard of anyone dying from paintball." Eighteen Tufts students and eager young boys with their fathers gather in the paint-splattered waiting room. My friends and I sit down and admire a particularly deadly-looking weapon lying on the table...
From the first fort, I slide along the paint slime on the floor to the next barricade. A battery of shots ring through the air, attacking the fort behind which I crouch. I begin to wonder why I volunteered for this assignment. I'm a writer, not a fighter. So I take the coward's way out. I purposely let myself...
...done some friendly fire in my time," one of the other Tufts student tells me, running his hand through paint splattered hair, "Better him than me. Once when I did this before, I pumped one of my teammates six times...