Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like one of the telephone poles in the empty landscapes he used to paint, Edward Hopper looms lonely and somewhat isolated in the terrain of American...
...first drew youthful attention in 1967 by setting up a branch in Harvard Square that was the absolute opposite of the banking establishment's marble mausoleums: a crowded trailer in the forecourt of a garage. Recently, the branch moved into the cinder-block garage, which was remodeled and painted a psychedelic red, white and blue on the outside and yellow, lime and white inside. The bank's interest in students goes deeper than a fresh coat of paint. Since 1968 it has been offering what is probably the most comprehensive student loan program in the U.S. For example...
FROM Berkeley to Bedford-Stuyvesant, scrawls of aerosol paint on ghetto walls demand: FREE ANGELA DAVIS. FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The phrase "political prisoner" is so laminated into the radical mind that, like "genocide" or "fascist pig," it has become part of an unconscious ritual. George Jackson's death last week at San Quentin raised some fundamental and difficult questions about the meaning of the term and to whom it applies...
...vans are everywhere: parked near the beach at Cape Cod, on Manhattan's West Side, on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, or cruising the roads, pikes and throughways in between. Few of them are new and shiny, and no one bothers much about paint or chrome. The kids actually prefer them to have modest exteriors; a flashy-looking van is always more attractive to thieves. To the owner what is important is what is inside...
Indians of the Quinault tribe in Washington State went a step further. Two years ago they had had enough of vacationers, who defaced sacred rocks with spray paint and ruined the beauty of their beaches with tons of litter. So they closed the 25-mile stretch of beach and wilderness area on the Olympic Peninsula to all nontribal people...