The plan would have us spray paint it white and decorate it with lights and ribbons to display next to the living room fireplace.

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But its badly rusted structure and chipped white paint has left it in urgent need of refurbishment.

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It is especially difficult and expensive to paint a white car after a black one.

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To try to keep up with demand, it offers the truck only in white to save the time it takes to change colors in the factory paint shop.

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The woman appears to have once held a flower in her right hand, until the painter began to rework it into a fan indicated by a blur of white paint and the upward gaze of her child.

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It is easy to paint the past in simple brushstrokes of evil black and brilliant white.

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The nest was daubed with white paint in an attempt to imitate bird droppings, so the birds would think it was an established nesting site.

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As it turns out, it's apparently just difficult to paint metal, and the manufacturing process required to make this laptop in white results in a smoother surface.

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In an effort to mimic the soft exterior of a real bed, Mr. Fischer coated one of the bed sculptures with white paint but then interrupted the smooth surface by pouring a pile of real concrete over it, weighing down one side of the sculpture's surface.

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