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One room of the show is wallpapered in a printed motif of enormous leaves, smeared here and there with giant slathers of fecal brown paint, on which paintings hang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

“We worry about anything that impacts our land,” said Simmons, a craggy, genial man who wears pressed trousers and slathers Tabasco sauce on virtually any food bar his morning cereal.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2018

The chief pleasure of this book, though, is Blair’s artwork, which slathers on patterns, scribbles and frantically detailed cross-hatching of various densities, with only a few flashes of light to breathe air into most pages.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

Where Kansas City is all about sugary, smoky goodness, Carolina slathers its various pulled pork permutations in a thin vinegar- and cayenne pepper-based sauce that brings the heat…literally.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 8, 2017

Then a memory surfaces—of Dad, that night in the kitchen, wincing as Mother slathers salve on his hands, which are red and blistering—and I know what he must have done.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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