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...Like Something Akin to the Sistine Chapel, But with Cows?" features Paul, who uses his art degree to design business cards at a copy shop and, since he lives alone, eats instant mac-n-cheese out of the saucepan. When Cindy, his old high-school sweetheart commissions him to paint a mural in one of the "Dairy Freez" stores she manages, Paul flies from Toronto to Georgia to oblige. Since both of them are single, they begin flirting, with Paul teasing her about her Dan Fogelberg CD. But when Cindy sends Paul, who is black, on an after-hours errand...
...life-size replica, complete with hollows, teeth and fossil-colored paint, was en route from Los Angeles when someone walked on top of its carrying crate and fell through. The skull had been welded onto a metal stand, and the impact sent a metal pole straight through the model. Luckily, the T-Rex skull has so many natural hollows that the pole simply went through the holes. The unfortunate interloper also was unharmed. Professor of Geology and of Biology Charles Marshall, who teaches Dinosaurs, received word of the accident before the shipment arrived and was relieved to see that...
...year-old cast-maker who formerly worked for the Natural History Museum in L.A. before she retired to making replicas. “She’s great,” Marshall raves. After the accident, Odano immediately sent along a new set of teeth and spray paint glue to touch up “the cosmetics,” as Marshall puts it. The task of repairing the damage, however, falls to none but Marshall himself...
...quite art yet not entirely craft, paint-by-number kits were all the rage during the 1950s and '60s. Originated by artist Dan Robbins, who took his cue from Leonardo da Vinci's practice of assigning numbered sections of his paintings to apprentices, the kits made it easy for the masses to create mountain vistas or the Last Supper. After the craze died down, the kits were left to gather dust on the back shelves of craft stores...
...interest in all things paint by number resurfaced a few years ago, and the fad seems to be gaining steam. Vintage finished pictures are now being avidly collected, and new sets are being made. The Smithsonian Institution was host to an exhibit called "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s," which led to a book, Paint by Number, by William L. Bird Jr. Designer Todd Oldham, who has been collecting the canvases for 20 years, recently taught the Today-show audience how to make Valentine's Day presents with paint-by-number kits. Sean Cisewski, inventory-control manager...