Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters who hurled stones and paint at Vice President Bush's limousine in Krefeld last month managed to slip through tight security lines with little difficulty. Two weeks later, police in the industrial city of Wuppertal arrested 104 youths who, under the guise of practicing karate, were apparently preparing to stage equally disruptive protests. In response to the escalating threat of violence, the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week approved a tough and controversial new bill. It would allow the police to disperse all demonstrators, whether they are engaged in violent action or not, simply if they...
WHAT'S ALL the fuss? you ask. Can't a writer paint pictures of the society he sees, even the hypersensitive sex-and-social-life carnival, without failing prey to political ire? If everywhere Frederick Barthelme looks, he sees women who terrify him--women taking the sexual initiative, women not concerned whether or not they are at a particular moment wanted, something very much like that must be happening around...
...looked like a cleanup crew's nightmare: a noisy throng of students brandishing cans of bright-colored spray paint on San Francisco's Civic Center plaza. The youngsters were not vandals, however; they were job seekers. It was the city's third annual Paint-In, and the resulting graffiti, scrawled on large white placards destined for the municipal bus fleet, beseeched Bay Area businesses to participate in Mayor Dianne Feinstein's summer jobs program, aimed at the city's approximately 15,000 out-of-school and out-of-work young people. And for one young...
...rarely encountered. Buddhism flourishes: Marxist reservations notwithstanding, men still don the saffron robes of priesthood for a time and rise before dawn to walk through the morning mist in search of alms. Well-off Laotians may apply for exit visas and generally receive them. Items such as enamel spray paint, light bulbs and vitamins, all unavailable in Hanoi, are in plentiful supply. "Sure, the market is full of clothes and medicine," laughs Luang Prabang Merchant Chan Manee. "This isn't Viet...
...Hayward, who eventually settled down doing publicity for a children's home. He brought 11-year-old Davey some Little Richard 45s and, two years later, had to shell out for a saxophone. "I thought, 'This is the pliable stuff that I can use,' " Bowie recalls. " 'This is my paint and canvas, and I think I can be quite good at it.' " His older half brother Terry had passed along a copy of On the Road, and Jack Kerouac's hipster visions flowed nicely into the first rushes of swinging London...