Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESCRIPTION: Four charts: Bank failures; costs to FDIC from bank failures; costs to FSLIC from savings and loan failures; savings and loan association liquidations, mergers and acquisitions; all 1981-1987 figures; color illustration: crying piggy bank...
...smart and itch. Uncontrollable bouts of sneezing and coughing follow, often attended by nausea and vomiting. As the hours crawl by, the inflammation slowly spreads. When it reaches the respiratory tract, swelling the internal lining, the breath shortens and the chest tightens. The skin darkens to a sickly purplish color, the armpits and other cavities turning almost black. Excruciating blisters appear on the neck, chest and thighs, causing patches of skin to fall off. Large lesions discolor the genital area. For some, the blisters and the terror eventually fade, although they may be plagued by side effects like bone-marrow...
Fashion-conscious Republicans know that it's better to look good than to feel good. So the folks at Clairol sponsored a "Freshen Up Lounge" where guests could see how they look in another hair color via color vision computer...
...most gifted, most daring moviemaker. His style is impatient, intimate, conspiratorial, the camera scurrying ever closer to the heart of the matter -- X rays of souls in stress. His films are also, thematically, the same film. In Mean Streets and Raging Bull, The King of Comedy and The Color of Money, he has made his own kind of buddy movie. Two men are bound by love or hate; one must betray the other and thereby help certify his mission. In the Nikos Kazantzakis novel and Paul Schrader's script, Scorsese has found a story vibrant with melodrama and metaphor. This...
...they could not actually be seen. Instead, the astronomers analyzed the shifts of light in the spectrum associated with a star as it moves. A shift toward red means the source is moving away from the observer, toward blue that it is moving toward him. By carefully measuring these color shifts, astronomers detected a characteristic wobble in the motion of the stars that could be caused by the gravitational pull of a nearby orbiting body...