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...Apart from two squid fishermen preparing outriggers under the Gauguin sky, I couldn't see another soul along the length of the beach. It was almost impossible to imagine this tranquil sea, waveless and lambent with the day's dying glow, as a foaming cataract of devastation. And as the waiter glided off to fetch another drink, I remembered Jahrani's parting words: "We live on the edge of the fire here in Flores. We know death can come at any time, from the mountains or from the sea. So we must try to savor each day like...
...wildly, with no concern for reality. By 1905 many Parisian critics still found the color combinations emerging from this Postimpressionist art peculiar. Matisse and his French followers, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, were nicknamed les fauves (the wild beasts) because they painted lemon yellow and lime green skies above pea green seas upon which sailed geranium red boats. There was another wild color that these Fauves used: white. In Alfred Sisley's Impressionist view of Willows on the Banks of the Orvanne (1883), we see pollarded willows in their May foliage, fresh leaves shimmering in a breeze...
...Crimson will open its season today at Ohiri Field against the Vermont Catamounts. And if the returning experience is any indication, as Roth commented, “the sky is the limit” with his year’s edition...
...world paused at 8:46 a.m. to honor the moment the first plane struck the North Tower, gusts of wind sent clouds of dust into the air, eerily reminding onlookers of another bright September morning when the sky filled with dust and debris...
...battle raged for an additional 15 hours in the chilly wind, with al-Qaeda and Americans trading bullets and bombs through the day and into the night. U.S. troops picked off the enemy one by one from the ground, while U.S. air power obliterated their havens from the sky. Amazingly, no American lives were lost in the southern end of the valley...