• 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.

    FORBES: Southern Discomfort

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Liang Congjie

  • He painted his house bright green and decorated the grounds with statues painted in flesh colors.

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  • Yarnell was a good man, thrifty and industrious, and he later became a prosperous house painted in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • Across the street there is a wooden house painted an oily yellow.

    NEWYORKER: Amundsen

  • " 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.

    FORBES: Chip Thrills

  • She lived in a mansard carriage house, painted black.

    NEWYORKER: Venice

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Sybil Connolly

  • 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.

    NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Showing video art: The glasshouse effect | The

  • She looked with the in-turned eyes of memory, but it was like looking into a house with every wall painted black.

    NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

  • He walked into the house, which is painted in various shades of blue and beige, except for the kitchen, which is a vibrant yellow.

    NEWYORKER: The Face of Facebook

  • But no, your house will not be painted black.

    FORBES: Get Your House Painted For Free

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Economic troubles: When the credit dries up | The

  • There was just the goal he had painted on the red-brick wall beside the house, for noisy football practice.

    ECONOMIST: Winnie Johnson

  • 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.

    NEWYORKER: You��re Welcome

  • 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.

    WSJ: Reformed Bad-Girl Artist Tracey Emin

  • The birds taken include Mexican house finches, green singing finches, java sparrows, Bengalese finches, diamond doves, painted finches and waxbills.

    BBC: Exotic birds stolen in Tadley, Hampshire

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