Word: painting
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Then there's the commercial aspect. The rise in creative holiday celebrations coincides with the coming of age of the events-planning industry. "Twenty years ago, events planning was in its infancy. Today you can get a college degree in it," says Howard Givner, president of Paint the Town Red, an event-planning company in New York City. Add to that the multitude of sophisticated consumers who put a premium on their time. "It's worth it to many boomers to pay someone else to do the work," says Givner. "In the end, a turkey's a turkey. Who cares...
...entrepreneur a lot of potential for growth. "People thought I was crazy, a girly-girl like me who is careful with her hair and makeup working with truckers and going into such a 'guy' kind of business," says Letizia, who has two grown children. "But I don't paint, garden or sew, and I wanted to make my mark on the world in a way that made sense to me, even if not to everyone else...
...what the city got was a collection of eyesores: about a hundred World War II--vintage barracks and buildings with asbestos in their ceilings and yellow lead paint flaking from their walls. Most of the acreage has no water or sewer lines to support new buildings. Federal and local money to rebuild, plus add roads, has been slow to arrive; so far, only $4.2 million has been spent. "Down here the land has no value because it has no real infrastructure," explains Sandy Sanders, executive director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority. The vacant post, Sanders says, wound up being...
...coast of Queensland, eccentric Scottish-born painter Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) began to harmonize a lifetime of influences and impulsive traveling. Mixing Taoist philosophy with Cubism, and Ab-Ex drips with Chinese calligraphy, his grandiloquent '60s works like Monastery and Monsoon transcended abstraction to become austere meditations in paint, as elemental as lightning. And all the more remarkable considering their flimsy foundations - they were often completed on carboard with the cheapest...
...Americans. The dreams of the old and new immigrants overlap and mirror each other, offering up myriad reflections of a mutually imagined America. When Christopher Columbus set foot on the shores of the New World, he described the natives as "young...well made with fine shapes and faces...Some paint themselves with black...others with white, others with red, and others with such colors as they can find." Columbus could have hardly foreseen that more than five hundred years later his description of Americans as a multicolored tribe inventing their identity from a dazzling palette of countless hues would ring...