Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DOLPHINS INTO A CIRCLE, WHILE THE 250-FT. MOTHER SHIP SLOWLY surrounds the spray-filled confusion of boats and dolphins with a mile-long, 450-ft.-deep nylon...
Despite its high-tech tools, ILM uses homey techniques as well. Clouds might be simulated by wads of cotton, the dirt on a remote planet by a pile of cork. The walls of the mine in Indiana Jones were made of scrunched-up aluminum foil, spray-painted to look like rocks. "We have no commitment to using the most sophisticated techniques," says Warren Franklin, ILM's general manager. "We go with what works...
...scents of lemons, wisteria and pines perfume the California breezes. Or perhaps ocean spray invigorates the skin and spirit at the tip of Long Island. Or the clear desert air of Arizona reinforces the sense of being cleansed. Whatever the surroundings, the wake-up call likely comes at 6 a.m., and after a breakfast that could be served in a thimble and saucer, the hectic dawn-to- dusk pace rivals anything ever dreamed up by a drill sergeant. "By the end of the day," declares Diane Sepler, 46, a Miami interior designer who is a happy devotee of such regimens...
...much more antagonistic are the Cambridge punks, who look like refugees from an Hieronymus Bosch painting, hanging around in the area once occupied by the aforementioned shell-hole. Even their habit of spray painting slogans like "Eat the Unemployed" and "Please kerb your God" on all available non-moving surfaces would be all right, if it were not for one unfortunate trait...
While that ruling was being appealed, A.G.S. was proceeding on its own. Late in 1984 it applied to the EPA for a permit to test Frostban on a strawberry patch in Monterey County, Calif.; last November the agency granted A.G.S. permission to spray some 8 trillion altered bacteria onto the field. But unknown to the EPA, the financially struggling company had already conducted outdoor tests of Frostban...