Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detroit police in riot gear used pepper spray and tear gas this morning to disperse striking newspaper workers who tried for the second time since Saturday to block delivery trucks carrying the day's combined editions of The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. "Either this is a prelude to a prolonged period of violence, or this is the endgame of the newspaper guild," reports Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "But it really looks like its the latter. As much as this is a pro-labor town, it's even more a pro-law town, and these strikers weren...
Seems the U.S Forest Service thought the rocks along a road in Washington's Cascade Mountains didn't look, well, natural enough. The service was going to spray them with a liquid mixture of iron and manganese, until a public outcry over wasting $37,000 to do it forced second thoughts. The Forest Service now says it will let the Mother Nature work on the rocks for a year before making a decision on whether they look weathered enough...
President Neil Rudenstine withdrew in exhaustion. A maladjusted gay man solicited all male undergraduates by post. Racial slurs were spray-painted over the weight room of Mather House...
Equally striking are the banners, designed by spray-paint graffiti artists from Los Angeles and San Francisco, that form the production's sole dacor. Each scene is illustrated by a single pennant, and each act is preceded by a collaborative mural depicting the deeply divided city of Los Angeles before and after a major temblor. Jordan's poetry too is highly accomplished and eminently singable. Although the piece was conceived before the 1994 Northridge quake, the title and title song derive from a memorable remark by a survivor of that disaster and form the show's central metaphor...
...line that will leave moviegoers' bottoms tingling; and it is shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines, as if every sailor were posing to be sculpted like the U.S. Presidents onto Mount Rushmore. When in doubt, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) lets loose a spray of water, sparks and sweat-the signature flourish of this Helmut Newton of movie machismo...