Word: rainbow
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...course, this wasn’t a flawless rainbow congregation. When we arrived in the jam-packed Hart Plaza amphitheatre, one man’s t-shirt caught my eye. “Come back to Detroit,” the shirt proclaimed, bold white letters crying out against a black backdrop. “We missed you the first time.” A menacing handgun illustration accompanied the aphorism...
...Rainbow Music Shop 102 West 125th Street (Bet. Lenox and Fredrick Douglas Avenues...
...what he's aiming for: the sort of one-shot, spot-on accuracy that Manet displayed when he painted his single stalk of asparagus with what looks like a single brushstroke. Except that Thiebaud has a way of punching up the effect with sharp lines and rainbow profiles of complementary color, a green or a purple, that pulse like halos and throw the whole form into relief. He isn't being hit-or-miss. He is, on the contrary, being intensely thoughtful. The arrays of pie slices or cake stands become Utopian: soft but strict geometry. (No wonder...
...asked her if she wanted to meet me for breakfast the next morning at the Rainbow Room, which is on the 65th floor and has views of all of Manhattan. She told me she wasn't much of a breakfast person. I called her Tuesday afternoon, suggesting tea. She told me to come to my great-aunt and -uncle's apartment instead, since she'd already had a big lunch. I went there and sat for three hours while they talked about trips to Israel and newly discovered food allergies. Gluten is a silent killer...
...with a piece of liver. In Mason and Dixon--written entirely in 18th century English, not an easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame. And in V., the New York City department of sanitation has a division arming men to kill the alligators in the sewers...