Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...
...Davis. It is a refurbished cyclotron, an early model particle accelerator that is able to crank a circulating beam of protons up to velocities as high as one-third the speed of light. By focusing the penetrating but low-intensity beam on the documents and then analyzing the spray of the X rays emitted when the protons collide with atoms in the target, Historian Richard Schwab and Physicist Thomas Cahill can determine in remarkable detail the chemical composition of both ink and paper, without damaging either. That composition, they have shown, holds the key to many bibliographic mysteries...
Students interviewed yesterday expressed variedopinions about the shanties, which are constructedof discarded wood and spray painted withanti-apartheid slogans...
Molly takes the job but meets with annoyingly predictable locker room resistance from her football team; vandalized office with spray painted "Get out pussy" decorating the walls, refusing to practice, flashing genitals. Molly is daunted, thinks about quitting but is buoyed up by anger and, then, predictably, overcomes her obstacles in a manly contest of endurance, a long-distance track race in the rain with the whole team...
...consider one thousand packets of Kool-Aid sprinkled all over the Quad as ART. What I consider it, and I'm certainly not alone, is an eyesore that smells like a five-year-old sweet-tooth's fantasy. The only difference between spreading artificial flavoring over the snow and spray painting it is that neighborhood dogs don't love to lick up spray paint...