Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Communist Party leader and leading presidential candidate, was plotting to steal the election by voter fraud and threatening a civil war. Although anti-Communist scare tactics have long been a feature of the election campaign, this attack was by far the most incendiary. "Yeltsin's team is trying to paint the race as a black and white contest, even though there are 11 candidates in the first round pool," says Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly. "Yeltsin's camp is telling the electorate that if they vote for the marginal candidates, Zyuganov will win and the result will be a terrible tragedy...
...J.F.O. McAllister says Dole can't let Clinton play to draw on the welfare issue. "Dole is trying to make himself seem tougher than Clinton on welfare. Clinton will pay the price politically for not solving welfare in his first two years. But he has been able to effectively paint himself as concerned with welfare reform, so it should not be a great loss in November." Noting that Clinton has vetoed two Republican attempts to reform welfare, Dole said Clinton has already retreated from his embrace of Wisconsin's workfare program. "Too often, President Clinton's statements are like...
Contemporary technophiles could learn a lot from the fire ants' story. They could learn even more from historian Edward Tenner's newly published Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Knopf; 346 pages; $26), in which that story and many more like it combine to paint a richly detailed picture of one of the more enduring features of modernity's landscape: the way our best-laid technological plans often go so thoroughly awry...
...statistics often fail to paint an accurate picture of life. A visitor to Area Four would soon discover an area whose residents are full of pride, optimistic about the future and eager to make their mark on the world...
...everything, including the kitchen sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works of art: "The Ozymandias Parade, 1985. Tableau: wood, plastic, mirrored plexiglass, fiberglass horses, light bulbs, recorded music, paint, clothing, plaster casts, rubber, metal, galvanized sheet metal, polyester resin, wagon, pork barrel, suitcases, fake money, telephone, miniature flags, and toys, 147 x 349 x 180 [inches...