Word: tiling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tile walls of the holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf are riddled with bullets, the marble floors streaked with blood. Inside the gates of the besieged compound last week, members of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army slept and patched up their wounds and died. But their determination never faltered, even under the withering firepower of the vastly superior army outside. Haidar, 23, had come to join the fight from his family's house just on the other side of the U.S. cordon encircling the shrine. "I was a history student, but now I have this," he said, waving...
Tash Chamal, who works at Tommy’s Value, agrees that the relationship between the store and the Art Squatters is a good one and says the Art Squatters are “very friendly.” When prodded for his favorite painted tile, he jumps from his cashier counter and slips through the back door to take a better look...
...boundary between art and politics seems hard to control. According to Gogel, when the words “ISRAEL” appeared as the motif of one tile, Art Squatters painted “Palestine” next to it to neutralize the political intonation. But a similar neutralizer for a tile that reads “NO WAR” is nowhere to be found...
...protect freedom and democracy." Inside the two-story house where the Tomb Raiders live, Schermerhorn scrutinizes the habits of the other soldiers, looking for signs of lassitude. Today he decides to send a message about the toilet. YOUR MOTHER DOES NOT LIVE HERE, he scrawls on the bathroom's tile wall. THE F___ING TOILET IS BROKEN. "If a guy's unable to flush a toilet correctly," Schermerhorn says, "what is he going to miss when we're out there...
After inspecting the bathroom, Schermerhorn writes his name on a tile wall in the common area that serves as a reservation sheet for the platoon's single Internet terminal. Most members of the platoon communicate daily with family members through email. The soldiers recently bought a webcam and connected it to the house laptop. The Tomb Raiders' hooch can be eerily antisocial, largely because today's G.I. can spend so much time in front of TV and computer screens. Schermerhorn spends the next hour instant messaging his girlfriend of three months, Nicole, a German he met while based in Giessen...