Word: teal
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...film's use of color is just as flippant; it moves from black and white grit to a hazy hand-colored look, and, like Mizrahi, every once in a while erupts into brilliant fushia, orange and teal. The often dreamy, occasionally crystalline focus is a product of photography director Ellen Kuras' creative use of different film and color formats. The variety ensures that we are constantly looking at something new; even if it's always Mizrahi...
...dozen fictional sketches from his staked-out territory at the edge of the natural world. The stories are slight, and the term note suggests sketchbook impressions, perhaps, for canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose, here he leaves all the right things unsaid, and the silence resonates...
...Norman, whose first novel, Northern Lights, was about Canada too, revels in remote places. Their names in The Bird Artist -- Mint Cove, Show Cove, Richibucto, Trepassey -- provide a particular delight, as do the names of birds and men. The strange birds give the narrative its own kind of plumage: teal, merganser, kittiwake, cormorant. When the men of the town are searching for a dinghy lost in the fog, they track each other by calling out names: " 'Richmond Fauvette, this is Oliver Parmelee.' 'Oliver Parmelee, this is Fabian...
...starting to cut through the clouds. As Air Force One touched down, the first thing Sidey noticed was that it had a new paint job -- Jackie's work. She had gone to designer Raymond Loewy to give the jet a new look; it was now a striking blend of teal, blue and white, proof of her sense of style and spectacle...
When you consider that another team with the 16th-best regular season record made it to the Stanley Cup Finals only three years ago (Minnesota), who knows, Maybe the Sharks have what it takes to be the answer to a more meaningful trivia question than "Which team popularized teal uniforms...