Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. MATTIE LOU O'KELLEY, 89, nostalgic folk artist of rural America; in Decatur, Ga. Only in her 50s did she start to paint. Her canvases became her memoir, telling stories of hard work and simple pleasures...
...office there are only low voices and the twick of computers heralding the new century. The clovelike smell of printer's ink has already been subdued by cleaning solvents and fresh paint. The absence is marked, though, by a great, gaping hole in the back shop, as if a huge molar had been yanked...
...color scheme--which includes pale green, pale blue, taupe and ivory--was selected from original paint chips from the houses in consultation with experts...
...alternative is to take a lesson from Disney and an army of developers, who are betting fortunes on the idea that everyone from young families to retirees wants to eat in a theme restaurant and live in a Frank Capra set, where the paint never peels and families gather after dinner to play Parcheesi. And so contractors are carving a 430-acre town out of cornfields north of Washington, replete with sidewalks and gazebos and town squares and the transplanted totems of an easier age. The deep American nostalgia for rural life may owe more to fantasy than memory...
...classroom window to "the red of a poppy, the blue of God's heaven, the yellow of the sun that lights up the world," and these colors magically appear on his hands, as if he'd dipped them in a world still damp from Nature's first spectacular paint job. "Life is color!" he shouts, as exuberant as an Iranian Zorba. "Love is color!" The movie screen becomes a canvas, and this brief (75 minutes), gorgeous little film splashes life and love onto...