Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style (shiny plastic and jewel finish) is by no means as rigid as it looks from New York. The scene is very diverse. Among its more gifted members: ED MOSES, 43, was born at Long Beach, Calif., and ran through a number of careers before turning to art-spray painter, riveter, lifeguard. Unlike many Los Angeles artists who rely on an even, machine-like finish, Moses' work is nuanced: hints of abstract expressionism are never far away. Byrn Verde is a sheet of canvas sewed and patched with delicate arabesques of thread and crosshatched with fine bleeding lines, then...
Compounding Penalties. The case involves a General Motors assembly plant in North Tarrytown, N.Y. For years, the plant dumped chemical wastes -spray-paint residues, metals, caustic cleaning agents-directly into the Hudson River. In 1963 the company was ordered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a treatment facility tying into a regional sewerage system. Various planning problems delayed groundbreaking until late last year. Meanwhile, the plant kept pouring its effluents into the river...
While the 207,000-ton supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were...
...selling nationally. Johnson's toughest time came two years ago, when the surge of black pride led to more natural hair styles, specifically the Afro, which severely scissored demand for straighteners and the other hair relaxors. Johnson responded by introducing Afro Sheen, a product line that includes hair spray and a "comb easy" shampoo for the natural look...
...Victory to the NLF," "Fuck the OFIEA," and "Off this capitalist death trap" were written in spray can yellow, blue, green and red, and in black crayon...