Word: lilacs
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...trooper sparked a debate among Israelis about the rules that apply when their soldiers open fire with potentially lethal force - particularly along the controversial new route of the security fence - and when Israeli protesters might be the target. Under the army's rules of engagement, incongruously code-named Purple Lilac, issued at the start of the three-year intifadeh, soldiers can use live ammunition only when they believe their lives are threatened. Human-rights groups say large numbers of unarmed Palestinians have been shot without justification during the intifadeh and that the army does little to investigate the deaths...
...three or four times, why the actors take three-second pauses two or three times in every sentence and why there are frequent minute-long intervals devoted to a character’s getting dressed or lighting lanterns. A line like “the water had a soft lilac glow” takes about thirty seconds for the actors to deliver...
...abundance in and around Munnar and is best enjoyed from Top Station. This exotic shrub's flowerings are few and far between?only once every 12 years, in fact?but according to locals are worth the wait, with blossoms carpeting the hillsides in riotous shades of violet, azure and lilac. And with one dormancy cycle almost complete, travelers planning a trip to Munnar might want to time their visit to coincide with the Neelakurinji's next breathtaking bloom, in 2006. There surely won't be a better time to head for the hills...
...opposite (green-red, turquoise-orange) to make hallucinatory hues. In Veld (1971), diagonal stripes in vivid green contain narrow stripes of white, bordered by infinitesimal lines of red - but you could swear the white was yellow. From jazzy stripes she moved on to paler, pastel ripples. Undulations of pink, lilac, jade and ochre make Song of Orpheus 5 (1978) positively pretty, even gentle. Inspired by a visit to Egypt in the late '70s, she returned to stripes. In works like Après Midi (1981), she recreated the palette of ancient tombs: terra-cotta, malachite, turquoise, ochre. Her next move...
...catch Michelle Kuo outside of Harvard’s UniLu homeless shelter, odds are she’ll still be lending someone a hand. Tonight, she’s helping the Lowell dining hall staff put out Brain Break. Bundled in a bright red coat topped off with a lilac scarf and a pair of shaking pigtails, the ebullient Kuo apologizes for her “massive boogers.” It’s easy to see how she brings smiles to people with difficult lives...