Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover and the inside illustrations, Ramp chose Matt Mahurin, a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., who has previously contributed drawings to the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Mahurin, 24, started by taking photographs, then worked paint and emulsion onto the prints, using a minimal amount of color and leaving much of the photographs visible. "I wanted to create a dreamlike effect," he says, "the feeling of seeing a photograph without the immediacy." Mahurin, who has always wanted to focus artistically on political and social issues, gave...
...ailurophobes around West Germany have launched a campaign to kill more cats than curiosity itself. Some have shot the creatures with air pistols or flung them to the ground from sixth-floor balconies. Others have poisoned, strangled, axed or blinded cats. Their rationale: cats gobble up plants, scratch the paint off cars and even startle innocents by peering at them through windows. As a result, an estimated 300,000 cats, perhaps 10% of West Germany's feline population, were killed last year alone. According to Dr. Erwin Muermann of the Bonn Cat Protection Initiative, the present epidemic of cattiness...
...more concerned with having an impact on national policy. The two groups are at odds over how to deal with potential violence in the peace movement. After 134 peace activists were arrested in Krefeld last June for attacking U.S. Vice President Bush's car with stones and paint bombs, Green Deputy Gert Bastian, a former general in the West German army, chastised the offenders as "provocateurs, not part of the peace movement at all." Other Greens insisted that the party must remain open to all kinds of dissidents...
...they squabbled and they squabbled Gund went back to the drawing board about 300 times in fact--and came up with a final play and ornately designed wooden 5 foot by 5 foot house with a pointy roof. The commission suggested changing the roofing material and the paint color. The plan was set in action, the University shelled out $25.000 In early July, the structure was unveiled amid fanfare. And they worked happily ever after...
...make sure that screwheads do not protrude and that the corners are round and smooth. Picky customers also slam the doors to find out how noisy they will be. Auto buyers check the upholstery for the proper stitching, open the hood to look at the welds and examine the paint job inside the trunk. Any company that does not meet the prevailing quality standards is soon in trouble...