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...dinner. My grandfather took my brother and me for rides on his tractor. I learned to pitch horseshoes. On the first Sunday in August, there was always a reunion of my grandmother’s family, when you could look up from your great aunt’s Jell-O salad (lime, with grated carrots) into eyes that were the same blue as your own. Ohio—that corner of Ohio—is the only place in the world where strangers, meeting my father, could place him: “Yes, you look like a Doerner...
...early in the season, it is routine for a coach to shuffle the lines until combinations start to jell. But Johnson’s absence was certainly not one Donato anticipated—or wanted to plan around...
...fight in a grove of golden leaves that turn red, plum, magenta and fall like fat confetti. In the film's design, color creates context. Each story Nameless tells is draped in a different hue: gray, red, blue, white, green. (In the fifth episode, a lake shimmers like lime Jell-O.) At the end, reality forces a new color on Nameless: black, for death. The cinematographer is Christopher Doyle, who has shot most of Wong Kar-wai's films. You can sense the camera in his hands as surely as you could feel the brush in Jackson Pollock's. Doyle...
...MITCHELL, 92, food scientist who accidentally invented Pop Rocks, the exploding candy that burst onto the market in 1975; in Stockton, Calif. During 35 years as a chemist for General Foods, he patented more than 70 inventions, including concoctions that led to the development of Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O gelatin and the drink mix Tang. In the 1950s, while attempting to create an instant soft drink, he discovered Pop Rocks when he placed sugar flavoring mixed with carbon dioxide on his tongue...
...liquid used in the flamethrower [for training] had always been a pinkish-red in color and had a consistency similar to warm Jell-O. As we made ready for what we thought would be just another practice run, and as I filled my tanks, I saw that the liquid was not the usual Jell-O--like substance. What I was pumping was a mucus-like liquid both in color and consistency. I realized that morning that the invasion...