Word: painting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...isn’t] living in Houston two weeks later, and anyone who’s very sick has been taken to medical facilities,” said Mollyann Brodie, vice president of public opinion and media research at KFF. “This does, however, paint a very good picture about this population in the aftermath of Katrina, and the tenuousness of their lives preceding Katrina...
...been the focus of national attention after Katrina hit, this ill-starred coastline has waited for more help to arrive. A family that watched the water surround their home and survived hadn't seen a relief worker in over a week after the storm and decided to spray paint on a shed that had floated into their yard their sentiment: "THE LAND THE NATION FORGOT...
...tracts of the city--not just shanties but mansions, not just the morgue but the Southern Yacht Club--aren't salvageable. They all sit in what is called "floodwater" but is really a solution of oil, feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty things floating everywhere. The masterless dogs are so hungry...
...patient who was particularly inspired by Levenson was Janice Munro, a former nurse who had bilateral breast cancer. When Munro arrived for her first radiation session four years ago, she spotted Levenson in the corner, painting. "There was so much energy and life in those murals, and that's what I wanted back in my life," she recalls. "When I looked at his murals, I forgot about the cancer and felt healthy. He lives life to its fullest every single day, and I realized that's what I had to do too." Today Munro, 62, acts as Levenson's assistant...
...Massachusetts College of Art but left during the Depression. The only work he could find was shining shoes, working in ditches installing water pipes, felling trees and stripping hides in a tannery. After landing a job during the New Deal with the federal Works Progress Administration, he helped paint two historical murals in Danvers, one depicting the battle of Bunker Hill...