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Where do we think yellow is going?" The captain of the Color Directions workshop scanned the faces of her troops intently. It was time to commit, to make sense of hundreds of amber and gold chips and swatches that lay strewn about the polished tabletop like autumn leaves on black pond ice. This was it--crunch time. Whither yellow...
...lighter blue in the cloth on the table, whose tone rhymes with the rolling bar of the map on the wall--a recession of precisely judged color echoes. It is also reflected in the pitcher, whose basin gathers beneath its rim an exquisitely ordered mosaic of reflections from the tabletop. And then there is the white cotton that drapes her head and shoulders, whose every starched plane and level of translucency is observed, light filtering through a small, soft structure that's as satisfying as one of Cezanne's hillsides...
...toys with a gold chain. The other end of the chain is attached to a tame flying squirrel nibbling a nut. Everything in the painting is a show of skill in illusion: the squirrel's pelt, the reflections and the thread of white highlight on the mahogany tabletop, the glass of water (to show how well he could do transparency), the boy's fresh, young skin...
...moved to the Desert Inn a year ago, after a relative gambled away his rent and utility money, leaving his credit record in ruins. A cook at Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want to be left alone," says Doherty, whose back was injured...
...January 1981, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the super-secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees counterterrorist units like the Delta Force, to devise a rescue operation. Tuttle says the DIA built a tabletop-size model of the Laotian camp based on satellite photos and took it to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to help the JSOC with its planning. Members of the Delta Force say the commandos then planned to construct a full-scale mock- up in the Philippines to practice its raid; as cover, it would pretend to be a Hollywood company shooting a commando movie...