Word: painting
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Wong’s process for creating her paintings is unique: she coats 6-by-9 foot sheets of paper with multiple layers of house paint...
...prepare corpses for air travel, per Kurt L. Chauviere ’04: “You strap them in a box, embalm them, put in a couple of pillows—it’s just like putting someone to bed.” (“I Paint Dead People,” October...
...Democrats, meanwhile, are not helping deficit hawks make their case, having shown few signs of running on fiscal restraint themselves. In fact, last week one presidential contender, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, tried repeatedly to paint the field's putative front runner, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, as a "balanced-budget freak" and to nail him for once wanting to "slow the rate of growth" of Medicare. Dean bobbed and weaved, proving that he too knows there is no political appetite for a candidate who serves up hard choices. The polls don't seem to give him or his competitors...
...politicized compassion toward nonhuman creatures. At one end of the spectrum are traditional animal-welfare organizations such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; at the other the sometimes illegal or violent direct actions of entities such as the Animal Liberation Front, which recently paint-bombed the house and car of the director of a chemical company whose parent firm has tested substances on animals. Though vegetarianism is the biggest issue for animal-rights activists - and fur gets a lot of attention because it involves both celebrities and fashion - the use of animals in scientific research...
...Gone” is bombarded with the memories of a lost love, culminating in a cathartic screech that clears out until all that remains is the dull memory of the sensation. With only Crayola-simple synth beats and the occasional muted female vocalist at their disposal, French duo M83 paint a collection of vivid masterpieces...