Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world keeps peeping in, especially in Scully's color, which is richly organic and never blatant. Its tawny ochers and deep blues suggest landscape, though in a distant way. The whites in Pale Fire, 1988, are not flat white but a subtle paste applied over a warm brown ground in rapidly varying touches, so that they have the visual elasticity of flesh. Scully is a conservative, measured colorist. His sense of art, the seemingly obsolete act of communicating by smearing mud on cloth, is anchored in the past. You can see traces of his idols throughout -- especially, in his liking...
...leveraged buyout. But when the trailer division slumped in 1987 as cost-conscious truckers cut back on new orders, Fruehauf had to strain to meet interest payments, which had climbed to $101 million a year. As other divisions faltered, Fruehauf embarked on desperate cost-cutting moves and fire sales that have hollowed out the 71-year-old company. "They paid way too much, and then their markets turned against them," says George Malley, a former head of the trailer division...
Artillery fire against the U.S. position kills two Marines...
...more Marines are killed by sniper fire...
...Marine contingent takes fire after its helicopter lands near the U.S. embassy. One Marine is killed...