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...tile-covered base of the temple is a muddy blue-green that looks gloomier on the street than it did in Graves' delicate pastel drawings. It contains arcades on three sides, which lead to a restaurant, bookstore and several shops. It also contains a rectangular entrance portal that will eventually double as the pedestal for Raymond Kaskey's Portlandia, a female figure symbolizing the city's virtues...
...faint whaps detectable in American League ballparks from time to time-they seem to be coming from under the stands-are soggy balls of adhesive tape being served up by clubhouse boys and batted flat against the tile walls by a semidiscarded old ballplayer working to keep his eye, even as the defensive halves of the innings go on without him. "Making a great play in the field always meant as much to me as a hit. I miss that," says Yaz, taking a deliberate drag from an omnipresent cigarette (he claims he never inhales). "I miss The Wall...
...Pillars of Society, however, ingenuity aids the entire production: One white tile and glass room evokes the sterility of the ladies aid society. The adjacent office's blue floor and low ceiling immediately creates a different space, although both "rooms" are quite small and are not separated by real barriers. In addition, Bernick's office adds a touch of humor. He reachs his desk by a ladder and descends by means of a fireman's pole--a constant reminder of levity which moderates several serious scenes, most notably one potentially awkward encounter between Bernick and his foreman Aune (Mark Driscoll...
...cast of this acute, disturbing first novel inhabits the Florida of all-night bowling alleys, Cuban diners and lesbian discos, caroming from the back streets of Key West to the tile-roofed mansions of Miami. There is no one to root for in The South Florida Book of the Dead-except the author-but its Me-generation drug pushers are an indelible crew, acting out new therapies while measuring their "interpersonal relationships" in grams...
...already beginning to slant low as we head toward the volcano. Smoke trails in long plumes from a dozen places on the mountainside. We come in over a cluster of bombed-out buildings, low enough to see through the gaps in the crushed orange tile roofs. The first cracks of ground fire come up at us, and the door gunners rear from their seats in their harnesses on either side of the chopper and shoot back. The ship reverberates with the sound of alternating bursts of fire, left and right...