Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army of 410 agents and heavily armed policemen cornered half a dozen members of the S.L.A. in a small rose-colored house in the south central section of Los Angeles. They pumped more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, and the fierce gun battle was watched live and in color on television by millions of Americans. The viewers included the Hearsts, who feared that their daughter was in the building as it caught fire and burned to the ground. There were six charred bodies in the smoldering debris, including that of Donald D. DeFreeze, 30, an escaped...
Like others who have paid calls of late, Atkins found Nixon in good spirits. He looked bright-eyed and fit, showed a touch of the old presidential bearing and vigor and was seemingly determined to demonstrate that the Nixon household had weathered Watergate and returned to normality. Atkins' color photographs, shown exclusively in TIME on the following pages, bear out those impressions...
...will provoke great curiosity. On the whole, the curiosity will be rewarded: there are splendid objects in the group (see color opposite and next page). The earliest is a 14th century hand scroll of portraits of Emperors, seated in their ceremonial robes like weighty butterflies. There is an exquisite passage from the Tale of Genji copied out on silver-dusted paper by the great 17th century calligrapher Konoe Nobutada. The screens include two designs of drying fish nets, probably by Kaihō Yūsho (1533-1615)-resplendent documents of the moment when Japanese painting, having absorbed its Chinese influences...
...when he was in his 60s, he produced one of the supreme examples of the art of color-painting on silk, the imperial collections' Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months. It would be hard to imagine a subtler, less cluttered image of nature than the cherry branch and spray of white blossoms in the February scroll (opposite); in this whispering refinement, Hōitsu was far removed from the earlier Jakach...
...small one so that she could see her back. A shiny, pale pink seam ran down the lower part of her spine; near the top of her left buttock, the crescent scar where they'd taken the bone for the spinal fusion matched the large seam in color. She shivered. In the six years since the operation she had never looked at her naked back...