Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most common weakness in the exhibit is a lack of boldness in the use of paint as a medium, not just a mode of color...
...piece, titled "Collaborative Yellow," in which each VES student of one class contributed a strip, is an exercise in varying items for texture. Among the everyday elements featured are sponges, licorice, and wash clothes, covered in bright yellow paint. The vivid color and interplay of textures draw the veiwer in to examine what beneath the paint creates the unusual texture. The painting is fun to look...
...were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese in California's Central Valley believe otherwise. Almost a year before the shooting, school officials had to paint over anti-Asian graffiti, including signs that said GOOKS GO HOME. Fights break out almost daily between Cambodian and Hispanic students at one high school. Says Sarmon Sor: "My daughter was shot, my son stabbed. I used to be happy here. Now all I do is worry. I worry...
...prosecution insists that she was in on the plot to use a fortune in bribes and plunder to buy a piece of Manhattan worth more than $160 million. Her lawyers paint a different Imelda Marcos. The First Lady of the Philippines, they say, was a woman innocently cooling her thousands of pairs of heels as the machinations of Malacanang Palace buzzed around...
...adapt menswear for women. Margiela likes to make new clothes look lived in. Although a scrupulous tailor, he sews dark seams at the knees of trousers to resemble a crease. Like everyone else, he goes for thigh-high boots, but his are real fishing gear subjected to a dubious paint job. He avoids ornamentation; all his buttons function. Margiela's designs are both practical and imaginative. He and his street theater may be around for some time...