Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before being silenced by their court-appointed lawyers, both had freely admitted that over the past three years they had lured the boys to paint-and glue-sniffing parties at the home of Dean Arnold Corll, 33. There the victims - mostly runaways from the Hous ton area (see box) - were homosexually assaulted and then shot or strangled...
Many of their finds were hitchhikers whom they picked up. They would invite the youths to Corll's home for "parties" of paint and glue sniffing. There the victims would be handcuffed to a specially constructed plywood board, sexually abused, and finally strangled or shot with Corll's .22-cal. pistol...
...costumes were Victorian par excellence. In a rather unique design idea, Soule elected to extend a small terrace across the entire rear of the set, and in its contrasting to the high, vaulted ceiling, it built an atmosphere of expansiveness (It would be worthwhile, however, for the Loeb to paint the back wall of the stage, or at least remove the smudges, if they intend to go on using any more sets without a final drop or curtain in back...
...thousands of tiny craters were filled in with water-soluble paint-purposely duller in tone than the original hues, so that the restoration would be distinguishable to the trained eye. Exulted Dini last month, after nearly six years' work in San Marco: "Look how Fra Angelico's colors have come forth again. They are so much purer, so much more brilliant...
...works are beyond restoration and can only be stabilized. The most famous of these is Cimabue's 13th century Crucifix, which had been moved back to its original home in Santa Croce from the Uffizi shortly before the flood. The water took off more than 75% of its paint surface and, the restorers found, would have stripped more had Cimabue not had the nails countersunk and covered with tiny wooden plugs. Exposed, they would have corroded, ruining more paint. Until 1969, the surviving pigment was too soft to touch; then it was painstakingly removed and cleaned. Soon it will...