Word: paint
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...make the payroll," says Fisher. A onetime Hobart, Ind., poultry farmer, Fisher went to Florida specifically to hunt for underwater fortune. Underwater exploration has been his obsession almost from the age of eleven, when, back in Indiana, he made a homespun diving helmet out of a 5-gal. paint can and nearly drowned trying it out. After he arrived in Key West in 1970 and began salvaging, Fisher became a fabled local character on an island where there is considerable competition for such distinction. For years he lived in an old houseboat and drove a $600 used Mercury...
...point of light have been calculated, those data are converted directly into the pixels, or picture elements, that make up the images on the computer's screen. Each pixel is either red, green or blue. When viewed from a distance, however, they coalesce like the dots in a pointillist painting. Says Lucasfilm's Cook: "It's like mixing paint. If you stand back, they all blend together...
...such novels-in-a-day, mentioning—among others—Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. These are bold comparisons indeed, and McEwan’s work falls a long way short of both Woolf’s and Joyce’s. In Saturday, McEwan is attempting to paint a very big picture on a very small canvas: a portrait of post-Sept. 11 England on the brink of war with Iraq, conveyed through the daily interactions of one man with his work, his family, and his fellow Londoners. Perhaps the Iraq war is still too recent...
...little things like a woman’s blonde hair, a hooker’s green or blue eyes, and Dwight’s bright red sneakers give eye-catching excitement to each frame. The blood is particularly colorful, and appears in red, chocolate-syrupy black, and even tempera-paint white...
...little things like a woman’s blonde hair, a hooker’s green or blue eyes, and Dwight’s bright red sneakers give eye-catching excitement to each frame. The blood is particularly colorful, and appears in red, chocolate-syrupy black, and even tempera-paint white...