Word: paint
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...economic hardship the country has suffered since the 1991 collapse of his Soviet patron (which had subsidized Castro's revolution to the tune of some $7 billion a year). Castro has a monopoly on the media in Cuba, and has used the embargo - and the Elian Gonzalez case - to paint Washington as hostile to all Cubans...
...treachery if he turned his back/on the sun that plunges fissures in the fronds/of the feathery immortelles, on a dirt track/with a horse cart for an equestrian bronze." But later Walcott wonders whether Pissarro's Impressionist renderings of French scenery did not involve treachery after all: "Are all the paintings then falsifications/of his real origins, was his island betrayed?/Instead of linden walks and railway stations,/ our palms and windmills? Think what he would have made/(but how could he, what color was his Muse,/and what was there to paint except black skins...
...polls appear to reflect a growing concern among voters: whether either candidate is capable of working with others, a trait seen as essential to being effective on Capitol Hill. Since his Senate run was first mooted, Democrats have painted Giuliani as a dictatorial mayor who may be able to keep crime rates low and the trains running on time, but who would be a disaster in any position that required teamwork. Meanwhile, in recent weeks the GOP has tried to paint the First Lady in a similar light. They point to the new book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton...
...even though the response in Washington has been lukewarm, Gore's proposal could serve him well on one front. He's managed to paint his opponent, George W. Bush, into something of a corner. After all, at this point, Bush's options are limited: He can scoff at Gore's proposal and risk looking like he's addicted to soft money, or he can try to capitalize on popular antipathy toward unregulated fund-raising and look like he's just following Gore's lead...
...calls it the best creative experience of his career, which may not sound like much, but his excitement is very convincing. "There's no excuse for young filmmakers not to make a movie. Anyone can make a movie the way anyone can sculpt or write a book or paint," he says. "The James Joyces have not yet begun to work on film because they're not the guys who want to sit around and work with executives...