Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just think, if you're ever a medic in the army, they can paint a big red cross on your head. . ." I began one day after graduation, with all our friends standing around...
...says that his rooms have been centered on a theme. Two years ago he achieved notoriety when he and his roommates decorated with a Garden Party theme, complete with astroturf. "We're working on something new now--a Jackson Pollock motif," he says. In addition to six Pollock-like paint dribble canvases, Mann says that his Claverly suite will soon contain an imitation Pollock...
Game-related pranks have often involved paint - especially blue paint sprayed onto John Harvard. In 1963, a group of Yale students decided that attacking the statue was not enough, and they proceeded to paint a huge "Beat Harvard" across the pillars of Widener Library. The clean-up cost $1000, while, back in New Haven, the Eli humorists earned a suspension from school...
Shortly before the game, electrical wires were discovered under the turf at Harvard Stadium. The wires led to fire extinguishers full of yellow paint, and the system was triggered by mousetraps connected to benches by the end zone. Had it worked, the device would have sprayed a huge yellow "Y" on the field during the game...
Predictably, the north wing--which was renovated to become a Columbia dorm--was renovated first. The south wing was not ready until December--three months late and with haphazard, peeling paint jobs and already crumbling plaster. Only after more wrangling and meetings with Columbia was the building finally habitable in March 1985, two years after the fire...