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His paint-spattered assemblages of everyday objects and found images – a photograph of his son next to a stuffed American eagle, his own bed smeared with fleshly colours – transformed art in the 1950s.
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I crumpled on the paint-spattered floor, counting cigarettes and brushes rolled under the easel, the shadows passing.
WHITE Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011
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Soon a shirtless man in paint-spattered pants emerged and peered at Fedder through the glass.
The Dog 2010
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The floor was covered with an amazing array of clutter: art history books, cassette tapes, art supplies, and clothing including lots of paint-spattered Armani suits that I later took to the dry cleaners in a plastic garbage bag.
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He falls asleep and when he wakes up he finds himself alone in a paint-spattered campus where the sense of foreboding is almost palpable.
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The Guatemalan men in paint-spattered pants standing outside their neat, brick rowhouses in Centreville said they'd be happy to walk a few extra blocks each morning to use a proposed day laborers center to look for work.
Day laborer jobs center would quiet some of the immigration debate in Centreville 2010
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The floor was covered with an amazing array of clutter: art history books, cassette tapes, art supplies, and clothing including lots of paint-spattered Armani suits that I later took to the dry cleaners in a plastic garbage bag.
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"I look forward to voting for you for president in 2020," says a paint-spattered Michael C. Sacks, project director at a logistics design company.
Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative 2010
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While I'll always be more comfortable in paint-spattered jeans making theater with a bunch of kids in a high school gym or rocking late-night practice sessions with the speech team, I have to say: I had a blast putting on the slacks and the heels yesterday and dropping some knowledge on Capitol Hill.
Kate Quarfordt: The Heart of Teaching and Learning: Dropping Knowledge on Capitol Hill 2010
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"I look forward to voting for you for president in 2020," says a paint-spattered Michael C. Sacks, project director at a logistics design company.
Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative 2010
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