Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That same day, a yellow Cadillac skidded to a stop alongside an empty lot in The Bronx. Two men jumped out, dragging a six-foot-long wooden crate. After dousing it with gasoline they ignited it, jumped back into the car and drove off. A witness who had noted the Cadillac's license number immediately called the police. The crate contained the charred corpse of John Tupper, beaten, shot several times and repeatedly stabbed. When police spotted the Cadillac, they found Jacobson at the wheel. The next day, they charged him with murder...
...Conference in Canterbury, England, bishops from all over the world voted 316 to 37, with 17 abstentions, to let each national church choose whether or not to ordain women priests, as long as dissenting voices are considered before any changes are made. On creating women bishops, Lambeth gave a yellow light: women can be raised to the episcopate only with overwhelming approval of the membership and after consultation with a newly created committee of Anglican archbishops. Said one observer: "The majority surprised everybody. Even Anglo-Catholics voted for it. They wanted to put up a solid front and demonstrate unity...
...performance. They no longer will have to rely on a clutter of spinning indicators or round dials. Information will be displayed, simply and concisely, on digital readouts, vertical scales and bright, television-style screens. A much improved radar will display the weather ahead in living color (red for thunderstorms, yellow for light rain, green for smooth air). An indicator will give the distance and flying time to bad weather...
...tongue." The principal influence on Macke was French: the paintings of Delaunay, like A Window, 1912-13, which had been seen in Berlin in 1913. Its light-filled space, saturated with color-not the sober browns and grays of cubism, but the full radiance of the spectrum from high yellow through to ultramarine, with a vestigial slice of trusswork from the Eiffel Tower rising in the top third of the painting to remind one that this was a view of Paris-made a deep impression on the young German, to whom color had an absolute value. But instead of following...
These days Simmons races around in yellow aviator-shape glasses and flashy shirts, hopping between Manhattan and Hollywood. He has a twelve-movie deal at Universal, and will follow Animal House with a film version of Lemmings. Veteran Lampoon writers, in various combinations, are at work on film scripts for Simmons and themselves...