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...poppy-laden terrace with pennants flapping overhead and the bustling harbor beyond. To critics today, the painting's brilliant colors seem to mark a historic moment, the "thrusting open of French doors to the whole world of light outside." But the fashion of the 1860s was for brownish landscapes of the Barbizon school; Monet was able to sell his work for only $41. Six years later, his Sunrise: An Impression created a furor in Paris and gave its name to a new school of art, impressionism...
...Aviation Administration radar station at Oberlin, Ohio, for a radar vector. The Oberlin operator announced: "You are three miles west of Ortner." "Fine," radioed Karns. "I'm releasing my jumpers." Looking down, all anyone on the plane could see was clouds, broken here and there by patches of brownish green. Both the U.S. Parachute Association and the FAA have regulations forbidding a jump through clouds toward a target that cannot be clearly identified. Nevertheless, Karns signaled the jumpers, and out they spilled into the void...
...these products of combustion were not unpleasant or dangerous enough by themselves, some also undergo complicated chemical changes in the atmosphere that make them even less attractive. In the presence of sunlight, the hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides emitted largely by automobile exhausts react to produce the sort of brownish and irritating photochemical smog that blankets Los Angeles for most of the year. "Los Angeles smog" is a highly complex soup containing, among other things, nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, ozone (a highly active and poisonous form of oxygen) and peroxyacyl nitrate (commonly called PAN). "London smog," on the other hand, usually contains...
Outlines of the figure are buried in a subdued brownish-black background, yet gilt buttons streak like dim lights to shape his presence. An elbow clad in rich brocade is flattened almost like a chivalric emblem of elegance, while the face gazes out with insolent indifference...
...into the oval office one day recently strutted a dapper dandy in brownish-grey toupee, cake makeup, Kings Man cologne, suede-and-'gator shoes, jeweled cuff links in the shape of a Jewish Torah, and a wristwatch with the letters of his name in place of the numerals. The watch spelled GEORGE JESSEL. The old vaudevillian briskly filled the President in on the war, assured him that he would waste no time in telling the world about the great job the boys were doing out there, and perhaps even winked a few funny lines at L.B.J. It was darn...