Word: paint
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Leonardo composed the notebook between 1508 and 1510, during a time when he was approaching 60 and shuttling between Milan and Florence, engaged principally as a hydraulic engineer but somehow also finding time to conduct dissections, stage lavish entertainments for his royal patrons and paint his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. He skips from astronomy to the flight of projectiles, but his major theme is water and its mysterious behavior--its varying flow and pressures, its intersecting currents, its ability to rearrange the countryside...
Ritts also homes in on every textural detail: neither beads of water nor grains of sand on the skin's surface escape him, but in fact add textural depth to the picture. Another series of photographs shows models encrusted with white or black paint, turning their living bodies into images reminiscent of classical Greco-Roman statues...
...shooting touch has not fully returned, however, as she is shooting only 36 percent from the floor, but the team is really helped by her size and strong play in the paint...
...past election cycle that it desired a compassionate conservatism. While Americans wanted smaller government, they still wanted that government to have a heart and to empathize with them. (Hence, the oft ridiculed yet highly effective Clintonian mantra, "I feel your pain.") President Clinton was very successful in painting the GOP as a party that didn't care about children, minorities, women and the elderly--a party that didn't care for all Americans. Some in the Republican Party would like to point out that Bill Clinton played fast and loose with the truth and unfairly got away with unfair charges...
...must commend you on your straightforward article about Richard Jewell, who was accused and then cleared of planting a bomb at the Olympics in Atlanta last summer [SOCIETY, Nov. 11]. You didn't paint Jewell as an angel, nor did you show the FBI to be a bunch of total ruffians. Most important, your story showed us how easily any person in the U.S. can become enmeshed in a battle with the system. Every day people are mistreated by bureaucracies, their lives and names dragged through the mud without their having any recourse even after they are cleared. Our system...