Word: umber
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...tradesmen's signs and old dolls, toys and jelly molds. Most of the forgeries are made in the U.S., where signs and wooden artifacts are aged half a dozen decades in about as many hours by the time-honored application of shellac and sizing, metal leaf and umber, topped off with a few wormholes supplied by an electric drill and a sound thrashing with a heavy iron chain...
...readily come by because a high proportion of bay debris washes up there. The artists are amateurs, art students or real pros. Singly or in expeditions, they come clad in jeans and bikinis and armed with tools, nails and beer, to squish out across the oozing, odorous, umber mud and whack away at the driftwood. They use only what they find, in deference to the DUMP NO RUBBISH sign and its $1,000 fine...
...table at this year's Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting reflected the divergent interests and cultures represented in the network of free nations that has evolved from the British Empire: only five were white, and the other 13 represented every shade of skin from ivory-yellow through burnt umber to the blue-black of Africa's heartland...
...buildings they were usually known for. Philip Johnson lives in a severe bachelor glass house in Connecticut, the kind of place beloved by House Beautiful. But in designing for Yale a new science complex on Pierson-Sage Square, Johnson surprised everyone by designing a turreted architecture of burnt umber brick and purplish Longmeadow stone that reflects the sullen soil of the area. So far he has finished the $3,500,000 Kline Geology Laboratory, a medieval keep whose slit windows admit daylight willy-nilly-and which one Yale Corporation member dryly describes as "solid as rock and functional...
...STORY OF WINE IN CALIFORNIA, by M.F.K. Fisher and Max Yavno (125 pp.; University of California; $15). For Mr. Gallo to give to Mr. Roma. White, umber and sienna jacket...