Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven months of her life. Upon awakening, she is greeted by the sweet scent of powder and fresh sheets, not the eyewatering stench of disinfectant. During the day, bright light filters through the two windows, stimulating her to explore, just as the darkened orphanage room, with its chipped blue paint, encouraged her to remain idle. And when she prepares for sleep, her cribmates are stuffed animals, not two other children...
Exactly a year ago, my husband and I traveled to Yangzhou to meet our daughter. Her orphanage resembled neither the "showcase" facility that Beijing opened to foreign journalists last week nor the horror institute described by Human Rights Watch/Asia. While the orphanage needed many things--more light, a paint job, toys--the facility was heated, the nurses were attentive, and the children were well fed, overbundled and bored. Several U.S. adoption experts tell me this description matches the conditions they routinely encounter...
...paintings carry stories, but only in their titles. The blue lintel and green tongue of paint in Gossip, 1994-95, are not going to tell you what the gossip was about. Dinner in Palazzo Albrizzi, 1984-88, commemorates a meal prepared at an art dealer's lodgings during the Venice Biennale 12 years ago, but Hodgkin's cadmium red extravaganza, with its broad serpentine shapes buttressed by planks of green, does not offer the slightest clue about the food, the company or the room...
...Moor's deft way with words seems to be an inheritance from his mother, whose odd way of speaking he lovingly records. Here she instructs an artist to paint her children's nursery with episodes drawn from Hollywood cartoons: "Give me boulders that only temporarily flattofy you when they drop down on your head, bombs that give black faces only, and running-over-empty-air-until-you-looko down. Give me knottofied-up rifle barrels, and bathfuls of big gold coins. Never mind about harps and angels, forget all those stinking gardens; for my kiddies, this is the Paradise...
...Means chairman Bill Archer (R-Tex.) said. "No vague statement of principles. No unkept promises. I expect a complete bill, nothing less will do." The GOP reaction is mostly posturing, notes TIME's James Carney. "The Republicans fully expected this veto and are trying to use it to paint Clinton as abandoning welfare reform, but the issue is still very much alive pending the restart of budget talks." A key Clinton objection concerns GOP proposals to replace federal welfare guarantees with flexible block grants to states and impose lifetime limits on families receiving welfare. The President seeks stronger federal guarantees...