Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rescue team would have preferred going in under cover of darkness, but by the time Smith's order came through, streaks of morning light were already appearing above the Dalmatian coast. At sunrise Berndt and his Marines, their faces covered with camouflage paint, had boarded a pair of enormous CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters-16-ton, seven-blade monsters. "We were so focused on the mission, I don't think anybody had any time to be nervous," recalls Berndt. "We were all excited that our young captain was alive and well...
...poetic righteousness that deftly avoids propaganda. Colors of the Wind -- among the loveliest ballads composed for a Disney cartoon, and sung to fierce perfection by Judy Kuhn -- ends with the admonition, "You can own the earth, and still/ All you'll own is earth until/ You can paint with all the colors of the wind...
Equally striking are the banners, designed by spray-paint graffiti artists from Los Angeles and San Francisco, that form the production's sole dacor. Each scene is illustrated by a single pennant, and each act is preceded by a collaborative mural depicting the deeply divided city of Los Angeles before and after a major temblor. Jordan's poetry too is highly accomplished and eminently singable. Although the piece was conceived before the 1994 Northridge quake, the title and title song derive from a memorable remark by a survivor of that disaster and form the show's central metaphor...
...anyone thought [our] intention was to paint all federal law-enforcement officials with the same broad brush, I'm sorry," said Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s executive vice president...
...Randy Weaver who answers the doorbell of the two- story house with the flaking brown paint and squeaky front door on a corner lot in Grand Junction, Iowa (pop. 880), is dwarfed by his own legend. He is about 5 ft. 7 in. with neatly styled salt-and-pepper hair. He wears a pressed pair of jeans, black T shirt and clean white socks. "I can't wait till all this blows over, and I can go back to the mountains again," he says as he ushers a Time reporter into his living room, furnished with two couches...