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...guerrillas countered with a barrage of automatic machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades and fled for the center of the town, seeking cover and supplies in the courtyards and homes of the villagers. As clay-tile roofs splintered and shattered in a sudden rain of machine-gun fire, the fighter planes unloaded their cargo of 250-lb. bombs, sending bottles and statuettes of saints flying from shelves and demolishing many adobe homes. Fleeing civilians were gunned down in the indiscriminate fire from the jets and helicopters circling overhead. Said a stunned villager: "What can we do? The bullets come...
...within the confines of the seminary of St. George, on the edge of Suq al Gharb. His church, built in 1750, was hit by a rocket one day last month while he was preparing the altar for the Feast of the Assumption. The whole of the red tile roof was blown away, but, miraculously perhaps, the vaulted ceiling underneath was undamaged. Other Christians too believe the seminary is protected, and its novices' cells are full of families taking refuge. "The fighting has created hatred in the heart," says the priest. "It will be very hard to overcome these feelings...
...lined with shops. The rock garden and waterfall are stylized Japanese. The architecture is playful postmodern with the now standard affectations and allusions to Palladian renaissance. But Isozaki's stylishness is not random. Only a Japanese architect and his craftsmen could use materials as diverse as titanium-glazed tile, glass terrazzo, onyx, inlaid marble of different colors, and gold and silver doorknobs to create an effect of subtlety and restraint...
After elaborate, extraordinarily secret preparations, the meeting was set to take place Saturday in a small house outside San José in a white-walled, tile-floored room furnished only with chairs and a conference table. Stone and a handful of aides had arrived in town the night before and repaired to the U.S. Ambassador's residence. From there they negotiated fruitlessly all day Saturday, using Monge as an intermediary, with a group of Salvadoran leftists located in the house where the meeting was to take place. The rebels had been assembled by Guillermo Manuel Ungo, the Mexico City...
...yarn and swatch upon swatch of silk, rayon and linen. "We need to soften the yellow to almost a blond yellow," one mulled aloud, squinting at several fabric squares. A green swatch was rejected by one woman with a disapproving, "That's too much of a bathroom tile shade." Another tan square drew the comment, "Good. It doesn't have any shine, like a brown paper bag." It seemed for a time that no decisions would be reached, but after 2½ hours of gentle tussling, the group last month in the Manhattan town house offices...