The initialled "J.R.," just below the lock in blood-red paint, stood out conspicuously.

The signs are conspicuous: blood-red paint on square slices of worn plywood, nailed high on leafless trees.

A big dollop of blood-red paint hits the horizontal spinning wheel bang in the centre.

And combative lovers often spattered blood-red paint on the glowing white rectangle that dominated Riccardo Hernandez's set.

One night, the house he shared with Mr. Thompson was covered in blood-red paint and a small kerosene bomb exploded in his garbage can.

Another Dockers boy, at Lafayette and Bleecker Streets, was defaced last year by vandals, who splattered his heart with blood-red paint.

But it was somewhat hideous, as his nose had been broken, and the unpleasant dent in it made horridly conspicuous by a gash of blood-red paint.

The blood-red paint had been sloppily applied, missing a few nails altogether.

I test-rode the fashion-forward Griso, in blood-red paint worthy of a Ferrari.

The remains of the old stair riser, still bearing its original blood-red paint, are nailed to a clean white Sheetrock wall above the new steel and wire staircase.