Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cans of paint were opened and spread about, light bulbs and two phones were smashed and paper and film were strewn about inside the building...
Aspiring rejasers can find ample tips in books like Joan Ranson Shortney's How to Live on Nothing (Pocket Books; 95?), which includes a 100-item check list for transforming everyday discards. A light bulb, for instance, makes a handy sock-darning egg. With blackboard paint, an old window shade becomes a roll-up chalkboard for children. By nailing upturned bottle caps to a board, the kids can make a front-door footscraper. These days, rejasers even dump junked cars neatly offshore: the hulks act like coral reefs, attracting fish-and fishermen...
What Flip needed was a crimson frisbee with a big white "H" on it. Phil had one, and the "H" was in phosphorescent paint so that it would light up at night. "Say it loud, say it proud." Phil kept advising us through the week. So all he had to do was ask a girl on the beach to throw the frisbee with him and ask her where she went to school. Within 30 seconds, the girl was in his arms, if all went by plan. If all didn't, then the only explanation was the girl's stupidity...
...problem with most tales of nightshade and magnolia, of course, is the denouement; The Beguiled simply winds down. Siegel and his scriptwriters have contrived a conclusion that is brutal but predictable. Although they paint themselves into a corner and don't quite escape gracefully, it is at least a lot of spooky fun watching them get there...
...pictures. Eight thousand people, including Muhammad Ali, "an ambassador and a European prince," have come to see them; all have been greeted by signs on the front lawn that say "Welcome!" "Free!" and "Come right in!" At 76, his golf cap, pants and shirt speckled with house paint, Sanford Darling seems to be at peace with himself. "There's so much to paint yet," he says. "Why, I haven't even started on the bedrooms. What do you think I ought to put in that front room? Little grass hut in Penang? Castle over in Germany...