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...post-landing celebrations. All further activities were cancelled, including a steak and lobster dinner, and NASA doctors began treating the three men for a potentially serious lung problem. Unknown to the watching world, the glowing hot Apollo had begun filling with what the astronauts described as a "brownish-yellow gas" as it plunged through the 24,000-ft. level. Scarcely able to breathe, the spacemen choked through the harrowing four-minute descent. After the splashdown, they struggled for another five minutes, while suspended upside down in the capsized craft, to get at oxygen masks, stowed in a hard-to-reach...
...gray plum tree on the brownish rice paper is twisty and knuckled with age. Plum trees regenerate themselves each year, and here the new sprouts burst like porcupine quills from the bark. The brush strokes have an extraordinary intensity-not so much delicacy as martial precision: one imagines the brush slashing down and up like a sword as it described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised...
Archaeologists have long been intrigued by the heaps of brownish-gray slag scattered amid the sandy soil of Israel's southern Negev Desert. First spotted by the late American biblical scholar and archaeologist Nelson Glueck, the heaps seemed to be remnants of an ancient copper-smelting operation of pre-Roman origin. Now, after excavating at the site with a team of West German mining experts, Israeli Archaeologist Beno Rothenberg reports that the slag is only the tip of an archaeological treasure. A short distance away, he says, is the oldest underground mining system ever found...
...Giacometti sculptures, drawings and paintings at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, there is a painting that epitomizes what he meant. It is not a figure but a still life: one solitary apple on a small sideboard, painted in 1937. The color is hardly color at all - a muddy brownish gray, smeared on the canvas with what seems to have been great effort, layer over in tractable layer. The fruit appeals to nothing but the sense of sight. It is inedible, untouchably distant, dense and gray as a little cannon ball, and so irreducible in its compactness that it could...
...must create a mood, an ambience," says Hutton. Wrapped in a scruffy blue towel, preparing for a session, she takes extreme pains to transform her face with makeup-glopping a brownish base on her neck to create "shadows," penciling in an outline around the lips to make them look more even. To even out her jaw-the left side is minutely larger than the right-she adds bronze gel to one side...