Word: repaint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This color coding has not worked, since it is easy for a bandit with artistic bent to repaint his model gun to give it a menacing steel blue glower. Typical was the incident last July when a real robber brandishing a fake black Colt .38 held up a real Kyoto bank van carrying checks worth 50 million in real yen. That was the equivalent of 263,158 real dollars, which are fake nowadays in Japan anyway...
...Once the board gets filled up, it can just all be removed, and then you can scrape it clean, repaint it, and use it all over again," he explains...
...press, as well as free elections, free speech and freedom of assembly. But the ever growing government bureaucracy encompasses 1.1 million of the country's 4.1 million workers. It inundates businessmen with almost endless forms and regulates a great deal of private life. A man who wants to repaint his house, for instance, must use officially approved colors (chiefly, various shades...
...craftsmen, then they became humanists, today they are celebrities. Janet Cox, the editor of the show's excellent but outrageously expensive catalogue, likes to draw a parallel between this collection and the pieces by the late sculptor David Smith which critic Clement Greenberg recently took it upon himself to repaint. Each of the statues in this show was similarly refinished when it came from its mold--the caster added details, smoothed the finish, destroyed the mystique of the artist...
...present, a student who wishes to repaint his room must submit an application which is sent to Buildings and Grounds. A maintenance man must then inspect the room and make any necessary repairs. The student then receives the paint free and provides his own labor...