Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spectrum of colors take on certain meanings. The observer in the "Towers" project stares out from his isolated chromatic house onto a Europe that is systematic and monochromatic. Inversions of color enhance the disturbing effect of the images--in one scene the earth fades to a dull gray, the sky flames orange...
...with good reason. At 3:01 a.m., as technicians gave up trying to plug the leak and began climbing from the silo, the mixture of fuel and oxygen exploded. Orange flames and smoke spewed out, lighting up the sky over Damascus. The blast blew off a 750-ton concrete cover. One worker was killed; 21 others were hurt...
...Federal Reserve Board in the weeks ahead. By sharply curbing the flow of money and credit last winter, the Fed severely crimped the ability of the economy to expand. Interest rates leaped to record levels of 20% or more, and the nation pitched into recession. By spring, the sky-high cost of money was threatening to cause a severe slump; the Fed then switched course and began pumping money back into the economy. Since then the money supply has been on a roller coaster ride of weekly gyrations, with the nation's central bank struggling to smooth...
...discussions were overshadowed by the bitter border dispute between Iran and Iraq, both OPEC members. And at one point the Iranian Oil Minister, Ali Akbar Moinfar, accused the Saudis of catering to "Western imperialists." Said one Iranian delegate after two days of bickering: "This thing is going to blow sky-high...
...discovers that she is a connoisseur of flux. The lake evokes her keenest descriptions: during a storm "the water was stirred every few minutes by a gigantic sweep like the slap of a hand." On a sunny day "the lake is ocean blue, throwing back the face of the sky and then catching it again...