Word: repaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Quinquela tried to persuade the city government to let him repaint Buenos Aires' aluminum-drab trolleys and buses. Finally the city let him do one bus in pink, red, green and blue. He has been less successful in his campaign against black coffins, especially for artists, despite a telling argument: "Why should we who owe our very bread to color go to our graves in black boxes?" In his will. Colorist Quinquela has ordered that his own coffin be soft pink inside, with blue top, vermilion ends and green sides...
...still has a law requiring segregation in work areas). Union meetings are nonsegregated, but some locals have raised hell when union headquarters ordered an end to segregated toilet facilities. But in one plant near Atlanta, when the "colored" and "white" signs over the fountains wore out, nobody bothered to repaint them, and segregation for drinking stopped. (But if someone had protested formally that it should stop, it would unquestionably have been furiously enforced...
Cranach Was Hidden. Going from "castle to castle" between world wars, she restored some 500 works for fellow bluebloods. She learned how to smooth over chipped spots ("like filling a tooth"), repaint damaged hands and noses, replace frayed lining, spruce up dull paint with a coat of bright varnish. As she became more skilled, she repaired masterpieces by Rubens, Tiepolo and Velasquez. Once, working on a dark, somber painting by the 16th century Italian Jacopo Palma, she found a whole covey of saints and angels hiding under the grime. Another time, she was called in to restore an unusual Lucas...
...time students start drifting back to Cambridge, they will see only the tall end of the annual summer painting and digging campaign. The University Buildings and Grounds department have had Adams covered with scaffolding to repaint woodwork, and the City has been ripping up sidewalks along Massachusetts Avenue to lay pipes...
...time students start drifting back to Cambridge, they will see only the tall end of the annual summer painting and digging campaign. The University Buildings and Grounds department have had Adams covered with scaffolding to repaint woodwork, and the City has been ripping up sidewalks along Massachusetts Avenue to lay pipes...