Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depth of Ghana's economic malaise is painfully visible on the streets of Accra, the capital. Potholes are everywhere; government buildings have not seen a new coat of paint in a decade. In the city's once thriving central market, goods are now in short supply. An egg costs $2.20; a pack of cigarettes, $30. Many factories have closed completely for lack of materials, while those that remain open commonly operate at only 10% of capacity. Harvests of cassava, the staple vegetable of the Ghanaian diet, have fallen to 1.8 million tons, down from 3.6 million tons...
Mags intends to do their portrait, but the Churches paint it for us first. Gardner has been a renowned poet, the confrere of Yeats and Frost, whom he tellingly quotes. Now he is, in Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...
Regardless of the face that Michael Parkhurst--the head of the Independent Truckers Association--would have liked to paint on the finish of the strike, the end result was a full scale rout for the independents. Dropping his predictions of 98 percent compliance to 70 percent during the first week of the strike, Parkhurst was eventually dealing with a 15 to 20 percent reduction in truck traffic--hardly the dent he had hoped for. The media concluded the affair by losing interest after the obligatory violence was curtailed, and the more fanatical independents and the lunatics who took advantage...
...example, if someone were to bring in a painting believed to be by Da Vinci, the Center's specialists would scratch off a sample of paint invisible to the naked eye. Workers then would examine the paint under a scanning electronic microscope in the astrophysics lab. ("It was bought for the moonrocks," Beale says, "but I don't think they use it much for that.") If the pigments and compounds used in the would-be Da Vinci do not match those from specimens that the master actually used, the painting is probably a fake...
Cohn recalls that one artist called her and said she loved to paint on brown paper bags. "Don't do it," Cohn told the caller. "Nobody's going to appreciate you in a hundred years...