Word: paint
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...going to happen. So he arranged what he figured was the next best thing: a stint with the Melbourne Cricket Club, which manages the game's grandest stage. It's a Friday morning and Josh is bent over in the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, using a paint-dipped broom to embellish one of the 50-m arcs for tomorrow night's Brisbane vs. Collingwood game. The stands are empty, the wind is numbing and this is painstaking work - not normally the boy's forte. But Josh is content. This place thrills him. Bruce Church has nearly 60 years...
...professor was right that I am at an advantage for having no artistic experience; my lack of confidence means that I am more pliable and ready to throw around ink and erase everything and spill water everywhere. It feels good to leave the studios covered in charcoal dust and paint, an inky reminder of the brief escape my class provides twice a week...
Thornton seems to be caught in what the Kerry-Edwards campaign is calling a "middle-class squeeze" as the duo tries to win votes in swing states like Ohio. How real is it? There's supposed to be an economic recovery under way. But the numbers paint a confusing picture. GDP grew 3.9% in the first quarter, and corporate profits rose 1.7%. Most important, payrolls have grown by 1.3 million jobs since January. Consumer confidence is up. But job growth slowed in June, and the new ones haven't been enough to meet the supply of 8.2 million...
...weather is always inclement, the protagonists are all muddy when they're not bloody, King Arthur's Christianity is muscular but joyless, and Guinevere is often daubed with blue paint. No, folks, we're not in Camelot anymore. Mostly we're in and around Hadrian's Wall in Britain at the dawn of the Dark Ages, with the Romans in retreat, the Saxons advancing and the severely downsized Knights of the Round Table defending civilization as they know it. Conditions in this world are not visibly much different from barbarism. Life on this frontier is rude and basic, though Guinevere...
...share President Bush's opposition to abortion and gay marriage, and during the movie star's gubernatorial run, some advisers counseled the President to keep his distance, to avoid offending his conservative base. But Republican officials now hope the Governor's broad appeal will help undo Democratic efforts to paint the party as doctrinaire...