Big John is John Grisham, the 45-year-old lawyer-turned-author who became publisher of the magazine in 1994 and used it to test the waters for his upcoming novel, A Painted House, which was serialized in the six issues of the Oxford American last year.
In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
He painted his house bright green and decorated the grounds with statues painted in flesh colors.
Yarnell was a good man, thrifty and industrious, and he later became a prosperous house painted in Memphis, Tennessee.
Across the street there is a wooden house painted an oily yellow.
" By the early 20th century Sherwin was making paint with lead-based pigment, even after the company published an article in 1904 warning that "white lead is poisonous in a large degree, both for the workmen and for the inhabitants of a house painted with white lead colors.
Perhaps the most famous garments made by Miss Connolly were a linen skirt and cotton blouse worn by Jacqueline Kennedy when she and her children were painted for the White House drawing room.
If it was nineteen years since the house had been painted, he said, the price would have been less than would be worthwhile for them now.
Yet she noted also that how to catch the passage of time in a still image is an old problem, one that Chardin was exploring over 200 years ago when he painted a boy making a house of cards.
She looked with the in-turned eyes of memory, but it was like looking into a house with every wall painted black.
He walked into the house, which is painted in various shades of blue and beige, except for the kitchen, which is a vibrant yellow.
Yet a report this week from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors painted a grim picture of falling house prices, lower inquiries from new buyers and rising stocks of property on estate agents' books.
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There was just the goal he had painted on the red-brick wall beside the house, for noisy football practice.
The house has a wooden kitchen floor convincingly painted to look like a signed Matisse cutout, holographic art created by her father, a little red panic-like button that has no purpose whatsoever, and, best of all, a large downstairs with a daybed (and bathroom) for me to share with her beer-brewing equipment.
Looking around the rooms, most of which have original paneling and are painted in neutral hues sympathetic to the era of the house, I see none of the signs of Emin's bad-girl days.
The birds taken include Mexican house finches, green singing finches, java sparrows, Bengalese finches, diamond doves, painted finches and waxbills.
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