Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yenan the city is no magnet to correspondents. Battered by continuous Jap bombings, it is a rubble heap inside ancient mud-and-stone walls; its inhabitants live in caves carved from the yellow loess mountains. But it is the political capital of North China's guerrilla areas with their 30 to 40 million inhabitants, and the military headquarters of a potentially powerful force of 500,000 regulars (a new high), perhaps a million irregulars...
...Metropolitan's print purchasers know what great art is, but they don't know what they like. The Museum has a story about one little girl who was buying a print for her mother, could not find one that suited. "Would your mother like the yellow sunflowers?" asked the attendant. "No." "Would she like the blue sea? The pretty children?" "No." "Well, what does your mother like?" the attendant demanded. "Men," said the little girl...
...would be a destroyer and godknowswhere for the Vag. They had wept when they left, but Vag was happy. With the index finger gone, the other four were meaningless. Soon he would escape the ghost, and would not have to see the teddy-bear in the window of the yellow frame building. That teddy bear would be Harvard, if only he had gold markings. Vag didn't mind leaving...
...Better Button Up." The sound of rifle and machine-gun fire was loud and close by. Casualties were lying in the dust with medics bending over them. The medics had red crosses painted on the sides of their yellow-and-green camouflaged helmets; otherwise they looked the same as infantrymen...
...dashed straight from Brown University to Broadway, sat around in automats dissecting the drama with an aspiring young friend named Moss Hart. Later he sat at the feet of "the master," Jed Harris. Harris produced Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy produced Hollywood offers. But Hollywood (Craig's Wife, Yellow Jack), for Chodorov, is purely bread-&-butter...