Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporting cast on this score exemplified the fluidity of the Harvard offense in the second half. Brown's crafty fake to the outside brought half the Dartmouth defense with him, while the right side of the line (guard Mike Clark, tackle Joe Kross) opened up yellow-brick running room for Polillio...
Moses Wine is a sometime Berkeley activist and law school dropout, now beginning a new life and career as a Los Angeles private detective. He drives an unprepossessing yellow Volkswagen convertible and often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior...
...Goodbye are appropriate to the twilight world inhabited by Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Altman's most effective, moving use of color to establish mood is in Thieves Like Us (1974), a beautiful, elegiac story of innocent young love in the Depression-era South. He saturates his images with green and yellow tones, simultaneously evoking both the languor of rural life and the lushness of the surrounding countryside...
...found few pieces of blackened scrap larger than two feet long or wide. An exception was an aircraft sign saying WELCOME. Near by two scorched dogs lay dead on their backs. All the coroner's crews could do was pick up parts of bodies and put them into yellow plastic bags. Said Deputy San Diego County Coroner Warren Chambers: "It may be many days before we will be able to match parts or even determine how many bodies we have...
...schedule of police patrols. Then with the timing of a terrorist bomber, he drove up to the plaza in a truck on Labor Day morning, and with four friends unloaded a 3,000-lb., 13-ft. turquoise object that looks something like a huge tuning fork. Wrapped in yellow paper, the untitled work was an unsolicited gift from Wade Cornell, 32, self-styled "guerrilla artist" who boasts: "I give to the people directly...