Word: paint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with his body, Bush-Cheney communications director Nicolle Devenish and much of the senior campaign staff, who were watching in the holding room, started shouting "Haughty! Haughty! Haughty!" That was the Bush spinners' word of the night, a favorite sentiment that showed up in early focus groups, designed to paint Kerry as out of touch and Bush as a man of the people...
This fall 57 schools are fielding teams that shoot paint capsules at opponents on the run. Iowa State recently tore up campus tennis courts for a paintball field...
...telling this story, Stalter likes to punch up his patter with wireless-industry slang. When he talks about bringing wi-fi to an area, he says he's going to "paint it!" or "light it up!" But the reality isn't that dramatic. Though they sound like a secondary weapons system from the starship Enterprise, the phased-array antennas are actually large, featureless beige-and-gray nubbins that sit unassumingly next to AC units on rooftops. It's almost impossible to pick them out of the skyline, though there are six of them in downtown Spokane, along with 12 smaller...
...struck immediately not by the similarity, but by the dissimilarity in the works. The print really is a method of art production all its own. The works made à partir de the paintings are not mere copies of them: derivation is what is possible. Not duplication, but dissemination. The Ingres is recast in a world of matrices, etched linear lines, solid, dashed or dotted, with a constant and deliberate geometrical pattern by which effects of depth and texture are achieved. The color of the paint may be lost, but something else is gained...
...painting Arafat as the prime obstacle to restarting a peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is not unlike the tendency among administration spinmeisters to paint its troubles in Iraq as the work of the demonic Zarqawi. In either case, it's far from that simple. Suffice to say that in the case of Arafat, the idea that those waiting in the wings to succeed the aging and increasingly unpopular leader are not likely to be any more inclined to accept Sharon's terms than is Arafat...