Walkie-talkies crackled, a police helicopter hovered overhead and acres of day-glo clothing were apparent on the guards monitoring the perimeter.

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At some big intersections, cops in day-glo yellow vests directed traffic.

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"We want to make people feel as if they are home, " says Wei Cheng, a hotel manager in Hangzhou, near Shanghai, although few Chinese homes have Day-Glo walls.

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They challenged the British Royal Academy , prepping painting surfaces with white instead of muddy brown, going wild with day-glo colors, and, most importantly, imbuing sacred subjects with everyday realism.

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Her bed is under a mountain of stuffed animals, which all turn out to be frogs: bright green, light green, Day-Glo green, some with stuffed flies attached to their tongues.

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Chemical dyes are brighter, even Day-Glo.

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