"This is better than whitewashing!
The boys were all eaten up with envy—but those that suffered the bitterest pangs were those who perceived too late that they themselves had contributed to this hated splendor by trading tickets to Tom for the wealth he had amassed in selling whitewashing privileges.
In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.
As for the dark "bandages," Liu said the materials are to help the repairs stick, and the whitewashing is solely for beautification.
Once people see that it's a monster movie and it's a historical fantasy and I didn't take a role away from a Chinese actor, he said, the charge of whitewashing would go away.
The American actor said he thought of whitewashing as applying to Caucasian actors who wore makeup to appear to be of another race, as was common in the early days of film and television, when racism was overt.
