Word: painting
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Mather’s singles would seem a lot less dingy if the carpet wasn’t fraying and vomit-stained. The folks in Currier House might not resent the long walk back to the Quad as much if they had a freshly-painted room to come home to. Even Adams could use a little renovation—in Dartboard’s room there’s only one internet jack conveniently located in Dartboard’s roommate’s bedroom. By slapping up a new coat of paint here and there, replacing cracked tiles...
Adjaye covered the building in a deep brown paint with a stucco-like surface so tough that the British use it to defend utility boxes from graffiti. It turned the house into a mammoth minimalist sculpture, a formidable box that occupies its corner lot with the weight and density of an anvil. Yet seen at close range, the paint is still translucent enough to disclose the lines where successive stages of new brickwork were added over the years, sedimentary layers of the building's history. "I want you to be able to read the story of the place," Adjaye says...
...conservative Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, who had spent $2.96 million to get the recall (and himself) on the ballot. But soon after Schwarzenegger got in the race, Issa bowed out, leaving Davis with an opponent who not only has star power but also will be far more difficult to paint as a tool of the right wing. In fact, it could be difficult to attach any labels at all to Schwarzenegger. What do you call an advocate of fiscal discipline who sponsored a successful 2002 ballot measure that requires spending more than $400 million on after-school programs...
...opening statement yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney S. Theodore Merritt ’74 sought to paint Byrne as a “bully with a badge,” arguing that the officer had lost his temper several times with Trombly and friends that weekend...
...trappings of a failed state are few. Liberian President Charles Taylor announced his resignation in a small, stuffy auditorium in the executive mansion, where the curtains consist of cheap red velvet and the chairs are painted gold. The mirrors on the pillars were dirty and paint-speckled, and the microphone volume waxed and waned. The traditional venue for state ceremonies, the Centennial Memorial Pavilion, lay too close to the front line. Until a last week, mortar shells had been falling all around...