Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concord Building, where the paint peels off the inside walls and rickety wooden stairways lead to doors that go nowhere, curves around the apex of Harvard Square at Mass Ave and Boylston Street. It's three stories high, and the bottom story holds stores and restaurants--Elkins, Varsity Liquor, the Tasty, the Grist Mill, the Wursthaus, all in a blur. The top floors--this is a story about them--are white and austere from the outside, bits and pieces, actually, of three small tacked-toegether buildings. A big sign that says J. HENRY QUINN REAL ESTATE stretches across the space...
Those who knew Karen in the last few months of her active life paint a different picture. Shortly after losing her job, she moved out of her parents' home and into a world of casual employment and even more casual friendships. For a while, she shared a house on a lake with two young men; somewhere along the line, she began experimenting with drugs. Several friends describe her as an occasional marijuana user and frequent pill-popper, who took "uppers" and "downers" to suit her moods...
HEAVY-METAL POISONING. Once considered largely a problem of the urban slums, where children eat paint flaking off the walls of old buildings, lead poisoning is turning up more frequently in other areas. High levels of lead in the bloodstream have been found in children living near lead smelters in rural...
...whole coffeehouse/gallery/theater has that sepia feel; occasionally the subway rumbles and chugs underneath; Red Zinger tea is the easiest smell in the place; and over in the corner a spot of white paint denotes a sweat-drop in the photo-realist painting of Richard Nixon meeting the press. Off The Wall is an atmosphere, slightly hazy and warm; light is refracted but does not bounce. It only ripples, like the images on the screen...
economics are not merely the Marxists vs. the conservatives, as the ambitious Marxists always try to paint it. Using the word conservative in this way incorrectly jumbles together different major schools of thought, some of which are in no way conservative...