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...decade later and returned excited by Cezanne, the Fauvists and everything modern. During the three-year absence from his adopted country, he wrote later, "steel and electricity had created a new world. A new drama had surged from the unmerciful violation of darkness at night, by the violent blaze of electricity, highly colored lights." Stella was describing America in 1912, and he translated one of his impressions into a bright, swirling canvas that he called Battle of Lights, Coney Island (see color pages...
...Arthur Conan Doyle, in Silver Blaze...
Alerted by a lookout tower, Forest Ranger Ronald Brickhouse rushed to a rural logging road five miles south of Columbia, N.C., to investigate a brushfire. Brickhouse arrived at the scene and discovered what looked like a small blaze, burning away with no apparent cause. Near by he soon found the cause-a freshly dug ditch with five smoldering bodies, two women and three young boys. Off to the side were a 5-gal. gasoline can, a shovel and garden fork, and some tire tracks...
...blaze of morning sunlight the buildings are white, elegant and French in downtown Algiers. Although the streets are named after Algerian martyrs, their design is French colonial. White stucco, palm trees and street cafes appear in regular sequence and converge at a large square or park. Their sharp angularity seems out of place in this hilly city decorated with Islamic arabesques...
...lights blaze on in the warm pool room and upstairs where the crocodiles smile. But it's nice out on the street; the klieg lights are off and the darkness is refreshingly cold. Too much Pudding leaves a sickly-sweet taste, like cheap champagne...