Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the middle of the wire-strewn mainstage you can spot about a dozen of them, hanging lights or spattering paint on flats, or plunging up to the elbows in papier-mache. Some are here because "I couldn't stand to look at my math homework anymore," some to get "comps"--complimentary tickets available to anyone who helps "put in" a Loeb production. Some settle down to fingerpaint the platforms and Grecian arches for two hours because they will deliver Shakespearean soliloquies from them in a few days, or because, like Peter Miller, they are the set designer...
...turnout is good, for a Sunday afternoon in the middle of midterms. People have been trailing in and out to hammer and paint all day, as they always do the Sunday before a mainstage show goes up. During that day, the Day of the Put-In, cast, crew, friends and relatives come by to act as "larries"--christened, a techie explains, after a certain person's cousin Larry, who became an institution for the time he devoted to enthusiastic but unskilled labor...
Sarah Small, a chaplain at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, runs Packard-Manse House in Roxbury. The old green house, once elegant, could use a paint job and a good cleaning. Small's haven for the homeless now gives food to anyone who needs it. Every week, several churches send food to "Aunt Sarah," which gets sorted into shopping bags. Poor people drop by when they can, to take a bag or two. The list of takers grows every week...
...expected, there were a number of protests by Welsh nationalists who have long sought to break the country's 445-year-old union with Britain. As the royal Rolls approached the 13th century castle city of Caernarvon, a young woman leaped forward, spraying the car with white paint before she was whisked away by some of the 600 Special Branch policemen guarding the prince and princess. Outside the castle, demonstrators chanted, "Charles, go home...
...Legend thats a picter whats depicted which is to say pictert on a wall its done with some kynd of paint callit fidelity. St is short for sent. Meaning this bloak Eustace he dint jus tern up he wer sent...XVth century parbly thats old spel for some kynd of senter where they done this thing theyre telling of.... "Wooded landscape with many small hamlets." Well thats littl pigs innit...